The LORD Lives

"The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, the Rock of my salvation!"

2 Samuel 22:47

Only the living God who created all things can save.  The One in whom is life was able to create life from nothing, and He alone can save our souls for eternity.  God can do everything because He is alive.  He is infinitely greater than man, but in living men we see a shadow of God's greatness.  The God who created the eyes of men to see sees all; the One who made ears to hear also hears all.  This God who formed man's mind to consider and think possesses infinite wisdom and knows all.  He created the mouth of man to speak intelligible words can speak clearly to all people.  Whatever a man can do God does infinitely greater.

No spirit, man, thing made by man, or beast can be likened unto God or rightly compared with Him.  He alone is God and is exalted forever without end.  How can an idol of wood, stone, silver, or gold compare with the living God?  God lives, and this is a primary distinction between Him and all others.  He does not only live today but He has always lived in eternity past.  He was not imagined or created but existed before time and the creation of the earth.  God also will always live, for He is not subject to time nor will He ever be.  For an eternity after this world is dissolved and time as we know it is not remembered by a soul, He will live and remain the Rock of my salvation.

God is exalted whether men think to praise Him or not.  If there is anything in this world which fills us with awe and wonder, that is the worship God deserves for He is greater still.  Though He is greater and over all things, God has revealed Himself to lowly man.  When God descended and communed with Moses on the mount Exodus 34:6-8 says, "And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." ⁸ So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped."  People and generations pass away, but God remains.

How good it is to serve a living God who speaks with us, who has come to us in Jesus Christ, and is risen from the dead.  Therefore let us bless and exalt our Rock of Salvation, the LORD who lives!