Each person who
pursues God at some point asks, “Who is God?
Is He someone I should hear constantly?
Or hear only when I find it convenient?
Or ignore altogether?
What did He do for me?
Will ignoring Him make any difference?
Is it just a matter
of being cautious, or is there real reason for me honoring God?
Does He deserve my devotion, or is it just a matter of me
doing the “safe” thing?
Did God ever do anything to benefit me?
Psalm 95 spoke in
two parts.
The first part saw
God for who He obviously was—the benevolent Creator.
Note this fact: the Creator God was the source of blessing
and joy. He was not (is
not) the source of terror to the one who accurately saw Him for what
He was. God was the
foundation of benefit!
As the Creator God,
He had (has) no rivals.
He holds in His hands
earth’s depths and peaks.
He made sea and land. He
deserved Israel’s
adoration! He took care
of them!
In the second part,
the psalmist said that they must not be like the rescued Israelites
at Meribah or Massah.
They doubted God because they were thirsty!
In spite of all God did to deliver them, they inwardly turned
against God. They made
Him the angry God who rejected them as complainers.
These died before Israel experienced Canaan’s deliverance
from the desert.
These people never
experienced God’s blessing.
Their distrust so angered God that He abandoned them.
Do you honor or
question God? Should He be praised or appeased?
Link to other Writings of David Chadwell