Week 14 Psalm 93
One of the topics I try to track while I’m reading-through is What-the-Lord-Is-Like. I don’t know if finding out what the Lord is like is the most important topic. But it’s near the top of my Important Topics List.
The bible is quite a bit like other books when it comes to me finding out about a character. I look for A) what the book says about the character and then B) what the character does and then C) what the character says. The last verse of psalm 93 is in the A) category (it says something about the Lord): the nature of your reign, O Lord, is holiness forever.
Saying that the nature of how the Lord oversees everything is holy is pretty definitive. The way things are run – their essential-quality & foundation & norm & inherent-tendency & baseline & standard – is along the lines of holiness. Holiness is fundamental. This is a useful idea to have in mind as I read…the reason being that when I read something about the Lord that looks-like or sounds-like or feels-like he is Not Holy then I’ve got something else to come back to.
There’s a totally different way to read the bible where I’m free to make my own judgment-calls about whether the Lord is holy. I get to say what the text means. It’s my call.
But I prefer the option of trying to figure out what the text says about itself.
Note: quote from Psalm 93:5 (NLT)