May 31, 2000
Reading
“Though the Lord is
on high, he looks upon the lowly” (6)
Having been born and lived in
With that in mind I would naturally think the same applies to the Sovereign of the Universe. After all, He created the heavens and the earth and everything that is contained in them. Not only that but mankind has proved throughout history that they would rather not recognize Him as their God, for no matter how much patience He has shown them they always choose other gods! They curse Him, use His name in vain, choose to ignore Him and even went as far as to kill Him when He became man.
If any sovereign had a legitimate reason to sequester Himself behind impregnable fences and ignore the general populous, it is God. Why should He not just sit on His throne in heaven and enjoy the praise and adulation of the heavenly host. Angels of every rank and station bow down before Him and worship Him, “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
Angels serve Him, do His bidding, worship and praise Him. God has a wonderful system at work in heaven, Father, Son and Holy Spirit all in one mind, no divisiveness, no friction, absolute unity and equality. Something man can only dream of. Why then should the Lord “look upon the lowly”? In His eyes we are but worms. Bildad had the same question, “Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven. Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise? How then can man be righteous before God? How can one who is born of a woman be pure? If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, how much less man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm?” Job 25:1-6. David also understood this, “But I am a worm and not a man,” Psalm 22:6. (Psalm 113:5-7)
The Bible answers this question, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, “John 3:16. This is the answer to our question, but it immediately poses another, “Why does He love us?” Only eternity will tell. We might well repeat the question Ruth asked of Boaz, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me - a foreigner?”
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness,” Jeremiah 31:3. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life,” John 3:16. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,” John 15:13. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” Romans 5:8.
Praise God that “Though the Lord is on high, he looks upon the lowly.”