Psalm 145:3

Psalm 15:3

Great is the Lord!

This is a thankless task! Somehow we have to try to grasp the significance of these words, written by King David, and try to understand the greatness of the Lord! Obviously, that is impossible for finite minds that are vastly inferior to His mind and incapable of imagining just how great and wonderful He really is. But even if we’ve just meandered a few feet down the road of grasping the Lord’s greatness we will have had our minds totally blown, as David says, “He is the most worthy of our praise.” It doesn’t matter where we direct our praise be it to other human beings, family members, those we love, or those we revere for their gifts and skills; it I still the Lord who is most worthy, for His character and ability far exceeds any human greatness. So much so that it is impossible for us to fathom how great He is. 

The Psalms have taught us that God’s mind is so much more powerful than all the world’s computers put together, in fact they are just the Devil’s attempt to copy the mind of God. It has dawned on the human race that if we can produce machines that remember everything and can easily and quickly access information then maybe we are getting close to imitating the mind of God? Even if we do, we still can’t create things from nothing; or breathe life into organisms or control the weather or the seasons, although given time, someone will probably try it! Let’s just wallow in that fact that the Lord is great today, let’s  elevate Him to the place of highest praise in our thinking, let’s extol His greatness and live in the security of knowing that nothing is too hard for Him and with God all things are possible!” Hallelujah!

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