"Be exalted, O God"
The more I read and study God's Word, the more impressed I am with its relevance to my life today. D.A. Carson, in commenting on Psalm 108, points out the great richness of Scripture and how we should respond in exalting Him.
"...although all of Scripture is true and important, deserving study, reflection, and carefully applied thought, the Lord God in his wisdom did not give us a Bible of abstract principles, but highly diverse texts woven into highly diverse situations. Despite the diversity, of course, there is still only one sweeping storyline, and only one Mind ultimately behind it. But the rich tapestry of varied human experience reflected in the different biblical books and passages - not least in the different psalms - enables the Bible to speak to us with peculiar force and power when the 'fit' between the experience of the human author and our experience is especially intimate.
"For this astonishing wealth, God deserves reverent praise. What mind but his, what compass of understanding but his, what providential oversight over the production of Scripture but his, could produce a work so unified yet so profoundly diverse? Here, too, is reason to join our 'Amen' to the words of [Psalm] 108:5: 'Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.'"
"...although all of Scripture is true and important, deserving study, reflection, and carefully applied thought, the Lord God in his wisdom did not give us a Bible of abstract principles, but highly diverse texts woven into highly diverse situations. Despite the diversity, of course, there is still only one sweeping storyline, and only one Mind ultimately behind it. But the rich tapestry of varied human experience reflected in the different biblical books and passages - not least in the different psalms - enables the Bible to speak to us with peculiar force and power when the 'fit' between the experience of the human author and our experience is especially intimate.
"For this astonishing wealth, God deserves reverent praise. What mind but his, what compass of understanding but his, what providential oversight over the production of Scripture but his, could produce a work so unified yet so profoundly diverse? Here, too, is reason to join our 'Amen' to the words of [Psalm] 108:5: 'Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.'"
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