Predictable Stability
Part 2 of 3
"Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun...its rising is from one end of heaven, and its circuit to the other end; and there is nothing hidden from its heat.” Psalms 19: 4, 6
This is an order established by YHVH in the beginning. When He set the sun, moon, and stars in the sky, He established their position forever. He even established this order as a covenant with Noah. In 8: 22 of Genesis, our Lord promises, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease”. Even Jeremiah gives voice to this surety of our Lord when he says in 31: 35, “Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (the Lord of hosts is His name)”.
There is an unshakable stability in the character of our Master Creator. Jeremiah goes on to say in v. 36, “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever”. He says in 33: 20-21, “If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, then my covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers”.
It is this unswerving stability of YHVH in which we can safely rest. It is the immutable nature of the Word of our Adonai that keeps us forever, an unchangeable character spoken of by Malachi in 3: 6. “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob”. Because of this firm foundation, we know He will never let us go when we heed His plea to “Come to Me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest”. We rest assured that we are held safely in His arms and “heirs according to the covenant”, as Paul said to the Galatians in 3: 29.
Paul asked of the Romans in 10: 14, “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” Even so, in v. 18 he quoted David in v. 4 of the 19th Psalm saying, “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world”.
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