Week 21 Psalm 145
If I asked a hundred bible-reading people what specific things they’re looking for in the bible there’d be a bunch of answers. But I think one of them would be: “I want to find out what the Lord is like”. (Or maybe I just think that because it’s one of the questions I have.)
Psalm 145 is a useful place to find out What the Lord is Like.
While I was reading I wrote down a list of thirteen items. When I re-read the list I saw that there were actually two different types of things: a) what the Lord is like in his character (what the Lord is) and b) what the Lord does (his actions). I was more interested in a) and the psalm said five definitive things about the Lord.
• The Lord is great
• The Lord is gracious
• The Lord is compassionate
• The Lord is good (to everyone & everything)
• The Lord is righteous
I wondered what results I’d get if I gave an opinion survey to a random audience.
I sketched-out a table. The left-hand column had five rows – the five qualities of God.
Then three more columns – check-boxes:
Do you agree with this statement? (Check “Yes”)
Do you disagree? (Check “No”)
Are you on-the-fence? (Check “Maybe-Maybe Not”)
There’d be some “Yes” & “No” hard-liners. But I wonder if the majority would be uncertain about one or more of the things David claimed about the Lord.
Note: character features are from Psalm 145:3 8 9 17.