I love the click sound of two magnets coming together. I’m sure I learned in my school years about the magnetic pull that brings them together but I have forgotten. Sciency I am not, but I love that “click.”
There have been some clicks in my brain this week while reading Psalms, Psalm 14 in particular. Something in Psalms clicks to something I’ve read before.
The author David, King of Israel, writes of the people of his generation who say in their heart, “There is no God.” 14.1
In Psalm 14.1-3 there’s the fool (who stubbornly rejects wisdom). The corrupt. The children of man (the pagan Gentiles). There is none who does good … not even one.
Click! I remember reading of that before … in the New Testament, in the first three chapters of the Book of Romans. The apostle Paul expands the stubborn and corrupt to include the Hebrews, the “Jews” who stubbornly did not recognize God’s promised solution to our corruptness by sending His Son. They have forsaken what they know about God (they know but they have utterly abandoned what they know), they have not submitted their will to God. The same God whom David loved and trusted for salvation of the Jewish people.
… all both Jews and Gentiles are under sin, as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good, not even one.” Romans 3.9-12
In the second chapter of the Book of Romans, Paul writes of those who have turned aside …
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done … Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Romans 2.28, 32
But … But there’s the Lord who looks down from heaven to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. Psalm 14.2
There is the generation of the righteous who have found their refuge in God. Psalm 14.5-6
Click. That also sounds like something I’ve read before … about those who have found refuge in God. In Psalm 2.12 Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Blessed! Blessed when we consider the God of Noah and Moses and Abraham and Joseph and David is the God of Paul, the same and only God worshipped by the people today who have found their refuge in the promise of God in Jesus the Christ. Sent to pay the penalty for my sin that the Lord would see me righteous by His blood. Click!
It’s the promise and story that begins with In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1.1 (first sentence of the whole Bible). God’s story is our story, of His promises for us, because He loved each of us more than we can ever ever comprehend. Click!
I hope to see you this Saturday, February 15, 10am at the church for Galentine’s!
With love, Colleen