A God of History

Great and amazing are your deeds,

O Lord God the Almighty!

Just and true are your ways,

O King of the nations!

Who will not fear, O Lord,

and glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.

All nations will come

and worship you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed. 

(Revelation 15)

 

This is a song we will sing in eternity, the song of Moses.   You know that feeling of singing in a large crowd, especially hymns and songs of praise? All the better if the ceiling is lofty and people know the various harmonies.  Even better when the songs are from the Messiah and it is professional singers making up the group.  We're talking Josh Groban here. 

 

But this hymn-sing will be much more vibrant and alive than even a Josh Groban concert. And it lies ahead for those who believe.  Can't you wait? 

 

What I love about this hymn of praise is that it glorifies God because of His works.  He is a God of history.  He has appeared in the history of the world and done His mighty deeds.  His deeds are too many to number: parting the Red Sea and the Jordan River, rescuing Jonah out of the great fish, coming to earth and healing people, dying on the cross and rising again, changing my heart into a heart of flesh.

 

These are real-time acts of His in real history.  He is not a far-off God, for He has been seen in His works and in His Son. Paul in Athens said, He is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:27).

 

Don't you love that our faith is based on Someone so real?   He alone is holy, and we will worship Him, because His righteous acts have been revealed.