Psalms of Delight.......
Most of the Bible's Psalms give thanks to God on one or more levels. Commanded to do so, Christians aught to make the time to praise God for His glorious nature, creative genius and many gifts to mankind. Psalms of Delight are written in concert with Psalms in the Night. Both series contain Modern Psalms meant to comfort and inspire those seeking the Omni-God revealed in scripture.
Mind Blower Summary
This first Psalm of Delight begins laying a foundation for this series and others. Simply put, God's a Mind Blower in every sense of the words. How few grasp the privilege and responsibility that is ours as the first generation to have the tools to begin to appreciate the incredible complexity and eternal glory of the Creator as reflection by creation.
Mind Blower Psalm 1
Wow. Let me say that again. Wow!
All the Trekkies and geeks, sci-fi fanatics and geniuses off all time working feverishly together could never scratch the surface of Your nature! You're God, the One and Only. Omnity. Self existent and immutable, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. The great I Am, You're the glorious and divine Present Tense Participle.
Such unfathomable attributes! How can mere words do You justice? Self existent: the first cause Yourself causeless. Without beginning or end. Immutable: Immortal and constant. Unchanging in essence and character. Omnipresent: fully inhabiting the temporal and eternal, dwelling within and outside of time. Wholly and holy transcendent and immanent You fill all in all. Omniscient: Transrational and all knowing, the repository and dispenser of all that is and will be known. Intelligent Designer and fine tuner of the multiverse. Omnipotent: Perfect in power and authority. Almighty and infinite. Intrinsically capable, "nothing is impossible for You."
How do we approach such an awesome and awful Godhead? All our advances and inventions, stories and imaginations pale in comparison to what we know of You. And how much is that? A fraction of a fraction of a fraction and so on infinitum?
Science and technology's given us front row seats. With knowledge growing exponentially, the secrets of creation are being laid bare before our eyes. From physics and cosmology to chemistry and biology we begin to see Your fantastic design more clearly. Day and night we poke and prod, probing for the God Particle and the Theory of Everything.
Yet oddly, the more we see of Your handiwork the fewer believe. Even with random and naturalistic evolution completely discredited most of our best and brightest reject You, or at least the hope of knowing You. On one had who can blame them. Glorious in transcendence, what is man in comparison. On the other hand, how can unlocking the secrets of cosmic design ever disprove a Designer? It isn't rational much less scientific. Something else's at work. Perhaps Your glory, even only dimly revealed through Your creation is too much for us, your least reflection dizzying giving the most gifted vertigo!
As tragic as it is ironic, it seems that rather than inspiring awe in You, the phenomenal age and immensity of the observable universe more often than not engenders an opposite response. The simplest math, not to mention genuine science, prove the existence of a Creator. So much so that for naturalistic evolution to even seem a reasonable theory, a multiverse with an infinite number of universal possibilities must be imagined. Yet even a child can understand that 0+0=0. For anything to exist, much less such an exquisitely fine tuned universe and even more so a mutliverse, God who alone is self existing must pre-exist.
I apologize that our skepticism and selfishness, usurped by temptation and deception, have produced anything but the praise You deserve. How incredible are Your works! A million Earths would fit nicely into the Sun and two hundred billion suns fill the Milky Way? Not awesome enough for Your plans, You added two hundred billion galaxies to round out our observable universe with a current radius of 46,000,000,000 light years. Just the first of the Three Heavens!
You must have hoped for better when granting us the tools to discover intergalactic phenomena like quasars and pulsars, white dwarfs and red giants, galactic black holes and gaseous nebula in dazzling array and spectrums of color.
And the building blocks You used! Molecules and atoms, protons and electrons are just the beginning. Fermions and bosons, quarks and leptons, nuons and gluons fill the silent, frozen emptiness of space and our minds with awe.
Finally there's dark matter and energy. Some ninety percent or more of Creation's filled with the mysterious macabre stuff. Given how the physical universe is a representation of spiritual and eternal realities are You trying to tell us something?
Well here's me telling You. You blow our minds.
Wanted: Guest Psalmists What do you think? Do we need Modern Psalms to address the ultimate questions and greatest issues of modern life? If you'd like to submit a psalm for consideration please contact Rob Pennington at Rob@GodBlog.net.
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