You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
I loved growing up in the country. We had the aforementioned timber, a pond to fish in, and snapping turtles to shoot BB guns at. You know what one of the coolest things was? Stars. Yes, on a clear night, you could clearly see the stars. Have you ever lain out at night and started counting stars? The funny thing is, the more you stare at the sky and focus, the more stars you begin to see. That’s the picture I get here from David. The more we see God for who He is, the more we see His glory!
Let me quote the good Dr. Spurgeon here, because he says it better than I ever could. “Creation, providence and redemption, teem with wonders as the sea with life. Our special attention is called by this passage to the marvels which cluster around the cross and flash from it. The accomplished redemption achieves many ends, and compasses a variety of designs; the outgoing of the atonement are not to be reckoned up, the influences of the cross reach further than the beams of the sun. Wonders of grace beyond all enumeration take their rise from the cross; adoption, pardon, justification, and a long chain of godlike miracles of love proceed from it…. Let our interest in our God be ever to us our peculiar treasure.”
Then we hit a recurring theme throughout the Psalms, and indeed the whole of the Bible. David says yet again, “I will proclaim and tell of them.” Noticing is one thing. Proclaiming is quite another. How are the lost to hear if we don’t tell them? The Word tells us that if He so desires, the very rocks can cry out for us, but it is our task to share His gospel.
Are we running out of things to say? If we are, then we need to open our eyes! The Lord is doing a work in your life. He is guiding you, changing you and sustaining you. Here is where that study of theology comes in. I’m convinced that the more we study Him, the more we will be drawn to praise Him! Here’s the part I love most. No matter how many books have been written, Psalms or Hymns have been sung, preachers have preached, His wondrous deeds are still too much than can be told! Throughout the whole of human history, we have been trying to tell of the glory of God, and that hasn’t and will never be enough! If you ever hear someone say they’ve got a grasp on God and His works, they might not quite understand just who God is.
Let us consider the Trinity. There is a lot out there you can read on the Trinity, and you can come to a good knowledge base about the Trinity. You can begin to understand the relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in oneness as God. You can read many scholarly works of men who have thought of the Trinity. You can know that it is a true doctrine through that study. You can understand many aspects of it, but can you ever truly understand the Trinity this side of heaven? I’m going to say no. But that certainly doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t pursue a greater understanding the length of our lives. The nice part is, we can be sure that we will never really understand our Lord until we are faced with Him before the throne, and then we will really worship!
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