"Look Hard..."

"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; Thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, Thou preservest man and beast." (Psalms 36:6) Odd title, don't you know; but if God were as visible as say 'the great mountains', then maybe we wouldn't need to look so hard; but He is not, He is the Invisible God, but made visible in all He does and all that He has made. His righteousness however, if you were to look at the word used here by David, is very visible and is actually the virtue of His character; much as 'the great mountains' which tower over the land, with their majestic peaks, and mysterious features, God has established a rule in His creation that establishes how justly He has performed all things, and that without His outstretched hand nothing would continue, not man, not beast, nor any living creature; for He literally holds all life within His hands. There is absolutely no way that we can deny God's justice and His great love for His creation; the harder we look into it, the greater complexity and wonder we discover; it's almost as if He welcomes it to be discovered, just to impress us with His majesty and awesome attention to detail. And as for His judgments, they are far to complex and lofty for our understanding; as 'a great deep' they are beyond our reach; yet we can understand that He does everything in a certain order, we just cannot determine what that order is, or the plan He has set before us. We can however take great comfort in knowing that He provides for all that we need; if He can provide for the beasts, which cannot praise Him, He will supply for all our needs. More importantly; if He provides goodness unto those that are bad, how much more will He supply His goodness to those that are called by His name? When He supplies sunshine, He supplies it to all; when He supplies rain, He supplies it to all; and when He supplies mercy, He supplies it to all; those that see it and receive it, are those that get to experience it... "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." (Isaiah 55:8-10)