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June 4, 2017 at 8:15 am #4261

Gary

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In the responsive reading, David repeats the statement, “how excellent is thy name in all the earth.” It is common in the Bible for statements of profound truth to be repeated for emphasis. Here, the use of the word “name” also was used to mean “nature” in the original language. This puts a new light on the statement for me. To me, the statement means, “All the earth manifests the nature of God, and it’s all perfect.” This is why everything on earth is under God’s control. He is the laws that govern everything. There is no place on earth, and no circumstance anywhere, in which God is not present and in complete control. The only cause and creator.

This is a wonderful promise, for it leaves nothing anywhere that cannot be healed by seeing God manifest and in control. The healing of sin, disease, and death, or weather or national strife, etc., is not a matter of changing a material condition, but, rather, a matter of seeing God’s perfection manifest already, and refusing to accept any other contrary, mortal picture. “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law” is literally the key to all healing (Psalm 119: 18).