Psalm 111:9

Psalm 111:9

Holy and awesome is His name

There is one outstanding feature of God’s interaction with this planet that has never changed over the centuries of human occupation. It is that He chooses a people who will belong to Him, and He redeems them. He chose Noah and his family and redeemed them from the devastating flood by placing them in the Ark. He chose Abram when he lived in Ur of the Chaldeans, and God led him on a journey that ended with His covenant promises being established in the land of Canaan. He chose Jacob and Joseph and Moses, and eventually, the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, who were redeemed by their passing through the Red Sea in a miraculous procession. 

God’s redemptive actions were proclaimed to the whole world when He sacrificed His Son on the cross and He offered a way of salvation to men and women from every tongue, tribe and nation. His greatest act of redemption was to save us from sin, the world and from the Satan. God always provides redemption for His people! 

The covenant that brings us freedom and salvation is commanded from heaven, it is unbreakable and established for ever. No one can take this from us, we are the redeemed and we will live for eternity as participants in the saving grace of our God. That is a deal that applies only to His people, those who are chosen, and it is 100% permanent and can never be broken. No wonder the psalmist writes, “holy and awesome is His name.” Why, at that time the full redemptive work of the Messiah was unknown, how could anyone have ever predicted what the Lord was going to do for His people? Now we know. Now we have the facts, at least those that explain the redemption brought at Calvary. What is planned for our future is still largely unknown, but we can trust that it will all come to fruition, so we too join with the Psalm and proclaim, “holy and awesome is His name.”

 

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