August 17, 2022 -- Psalm 75:1-3 -- It is the LORD Who Keeps the Earth Steady

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We give thanks to you, O God;
    we give thanks, for your name is near.
We recount your wondrous deeds.

2 “At the set time that I appoint
    I will judge with equity.
3 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
    it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
Psalm 75:1-3 ESV

The National Physical Laboratory of England noted that on June 29th of this year, the earth had the shortest day on record. It was 1.59 milliseconds off a typical 24 hour day. Interestingly, next to that article was a headline that suggested some millions of years ago the typical earth day was 23 1/2 hours. As you know, if you read this devo-blog regularly, I hold to the Biblical account of creation—some 6,000 years ago God created the heavens and the earth. So, this constant secular teaching strategy of saying “millions” or “billions” of years at every chance possible is merely sinful man repeating sinful lies. And the speculations of what might or might not have happened in these imaginary times are fanciful expressions of rebellious people seeking to break free from the clear teaching of the Creator.

Why mention such things. Well, we live in a world of people who are saying: there will be more hurricanes, because of climate change. There will be this disaster or the next disaster because of this hard-to-pin down monster called climate change. People who do not know God, or refuse to acknowledged Him, are being consistent in their dire predictions. They are afraid of everything because they live in a cold and pitiless universe ruled by change and chance.

This is why the Christian is at odds with the world. Christians give thanks to God, for in Scripture we know that the God Who made the universe also sustains it. He keeps it steady. He has revealed His glorious intentions to make the world a place for Christians to know Him and be guarded in His love until He brings the New Heavens and the New Earth where there will be no more sin, no death, no suffering. Those who refused to acknowledge Him now, while there is ample time and many, many evidences of His goodness, will face eternity in hell.

Jesus Christ is proof of God’s claims. Into all the apparent chaos of history and upheaval of nations, God sent His Son. Though Jesus suffered through-out His life, He lived His life to the glory and praise of His Father. He was, in all circumstances content. No matter what happened to Jesus, He knew God’s Name was near at hand. The Spirit of God provided the link between Jesus’ humanity and Jesus’ relationship with His Father in heaven.

Those who are in Christ, following Him, have the tremendous assurance that their lives are bound up in the merciful care of God. No matter the tumult of nations or the alarmist cries of scientists who predict fearful things because they do not acknowledge the Living God—the followers of Jesus Christ lives in peace. God’s Name is near—He has impressed His Name in our hearts by HIs Spirit; He has given us tongues to declare His goodness revealed so perfectly in Jesus Christ. He has shown us the creation, in Genesis, God made it. He showed us through-out Scripture that creation does His bidding and He sustains it. He has written the end of the story. From the Revelation we know Jesus triumphs. From Romans and Revelation we read that creation will be released from the bondage to sin to which our wrong-doing imprisoned it.

The earth will reach the moment in galactic history for which God has prepared it. Jesus will be revealed. All the living, and all those who had died before His return, will appear before the throne of Jesus. Then Jesus will Judge the nations, and all His judgments will reveal the depths of the Father’s sustaining care and also reveal the Spirit’s beautiful work of drawing believers nearer and nearer to the Faithful Father.

Glorious are You LORD GOD Almighty! Just and true are all Your works. Thank You that Your Name is near to all Who know You. Thank You that You draw near to Yourself all whom You have appointed for eternal life. Thank You that even history declares Your majesty and the splendour of Your work. Renew our confident hope in the promises of this passage, that You keep steady the pillars of the earth and the safety of its inhabitants. Increase our faith, O Father of every good gift, so that our word, our lives and our confidence in You will turn many of our peers from fearfulness at this world to faithful confidence in the Creator of the World. Amen.

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