“Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy [steadfast love], because of Your truth. Why should the Gentiles say, ‘So where is their God?’ But our God is in heaven: He does whatever He pleases” (Psalm 115:1-3a).
Dear Praying Friends:
Since the Psalmist’s time, our transcendent God has come down to us:
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace [steadfast love] and truth” (John 1:14). He lived, taught, worked miracles of pity and power, died as the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world, rose again, and now he is again in heaven seated at the right hand of God.
One with the Father, he is “far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is name, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church” (Ephesians 1:21-22).
And, as the psalm goes on to say, this God “will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great” (Psalm 115:13). Truly, in Christ God has “blessed us with every spiritual in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 1:3).
That is the great mystery of Christ: We have a God who is not just in heaven, but “Immanuel, God with us . . . always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 1:23; 28:20).
“We will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore” (Psalm 115:18).
Yours in his never-failing presence,
Wright