v. 25 – majesty,

Devotional:

He was and is and is to come, He reigns on high over all things visible and invisible.

His ways are higher, His thoughts are wiser, His beauty is matchless, and His sovereignty is sure.

He is everywhere, ahead of everything, and behind everything. There is nothing that happens that does not first pass through His hands.

He holds the endless galaxies in His hands and knows the stars by the names He has given each one.

Before the beginning, He set at the foundation of the world a cross and made atonement for all sins of His children so they could be redeemed by His mercy and secured for His glory.

Every whisper of wind and calamity of storm declares His might. Every rolling wave and soaring eagle give way to His presence. Every child’s tear and every mother’s embrace arrive by the merciful touch of God.

To be near Him is to be alive, to be His is to be immortal. He is unending beyond time, never-changing in character nor intention, incomprehensible in mercy, and more available to His children than gravity is to the earth.

He did not begin when the beginning began but He began the beginning; He did not start when start started, He started start. At a word He brought forth day and night, land and sea, and all things that crawl, swim, and fly. He leaned in and breathed the life of an eternal soul into His prized creation, and up from the dirt came His image, staring back at Him, reflecting Him to His creation, just as the moon reflects the sun.

He is the Lord God of Israel, the Lion of Judah, the righteous one of the remnant, the Prince of Peace, the King of all Kings, the firstborn among the dead, the resurrected Christ, the Messiah, and the Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world.

He is the joy that comes in the morning. He is the eternity that has been set in the hearts of man and the true north which guides us home. He has ten thousand times ten thousand angels declaring His glory and angels of fire flying around His throne declaring His nature singing, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God almighty.”

His love never fails and His hope endures forever. It is with gladness He does all things, and there is nothing that runs deeper through the veins of creation than His grace. His purpose is undeniable and His mission is unwavering.

It is in Him, through Him, for Him, by Him, and to Him that all things that have been created were created. He can’t be stopped, won’t be forgotten, and shall never be moved nor forsaken.

His name is above every name on earth and in heaven, and He has set a feast for his family that will forever be their joy. He has no fear, He has no shame, He is guilty of nothing, and He will always finish what He starts. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, and good. He is tenacious in dispensing His grace, He is ferocious in battle, undefeated, irrevocable, and supreme in all His ways.

He is majesty.

REFLECTION:

Pick three attributes from the list above and look up verses to support these statements. How do the attributes you selected depict His majesty and what do they mean to your heart?