Tremble

The mountains do it.  The earth does it.  The sky does it.  The coastlands do it.  Yes, and even the devils do it!  How about the most precious of all creation: man?   Man, who of all God’s creation was created in His image!   Man, who is distinct from all of creation!     Man, the most special, I fear does not do it:  Tremble!  Listen as Isaiah brings to the people, “Thus says the LORD”:

“For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,’ declares the LORD.   But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.”   “Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word.”

 

Do we hear?  Do we tremble?  If not, meditate just a bit on the Power displayed in creation.  It doesn’t take long to tremble and grow faint with the thought that we have access to Him, the One who possesses that unlimited power.   Jesus has provided  this access!  As we begin to tremble at the thought, hopefully the whoosh of the magnitude of those who have not heard the Word will come over us.  Hopefully, the immediacy of the need of the hour will give us the “glowing missionary spirit” Jesus has commanded in the Great Commission.  We have access to the God of creation.  That’s something to cause us to tremble with a mixture of sheer fear and excitement mingled!

It reminds me of part of a song heard all my life:  “Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble…”   May that “sometimes” be changed to "all times"!

(Scripture ref. in order:  Is. 64:3; Hab. 3:10;  Joel 3:16;  Jud. 5:4; Psalm 60:2; Joel 2:10; Ez. 26:18; James 2:19; Is. 66:2 & 5; Matt. 28:18-20.  Song;  Were You There)