Psalm 134:3

Psalm 134:3

The Maker of heaven and earth

One of the defining tenets of our faith, and the faith of our ancestors, is our belief that the Lord our God is the Maker of heaven and earth. It’s not possible to sit on the fence about this, we either believe in a God who is our Creator, or we follow the theories of a world that seeks to ignore God, discount His creative powers and desires no accountability to anyone or anything beyond the confines of this planet. To believe in God is to embrace His power, His knowledge and His elaborate and detailed creativity; He is in control, He is observing every act of mankind, and He jealously guards the earth that He made. If we cannot accept this principle, then the God we worship is a lesser being than the One who is the Author of the Scriptures and who sacrificed His Son to bring us salvation, forgiveness and hope. 

The Jews had a problem with belief in such a God, they found it extremely difficult to obey His laws and instead preferred to sacrifice to idols and false deities who offered much but gave them nothing. And the world has a similar outlook that it refuses to change, the Satan conjures up endless variations on the same theme, endless copies of lesser gods, none of which have the ability to create heaven and earth. 

It’s time to look hard at ourselves and ask, “What do I really believe about God?” Stop for a moment and look up or out and survey the created world and see the stamp of God on every living thing and on every divinely crafted object. The very atmosphere we breathe was designed by Him and made to interact perfectly with the organs of our bodies so that we can live, breathe and reproduce. Every insect, every flower, every blade of grass, every cloud in the sky is put there for a reason, they all constitute part of the incredibly complex machinery that allows the earth to operate. And this is all by divine design and command.

This same God was the God of the Levites who worked by night in His Temple in Zion and it is these men who looked out over the earth and called down a blessing from Zion. “May the Lord bless you from Zion, He who is the maker of heaven and earth.”

May He bless all of us this day. Hallelujah! 

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