Sweet Meditation on the Greatness Of God

“Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty…My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.” (Ps 104:1,34 AV)

Space would not permit me to quote all the verses that fall between these two.  The writer masterfully illuminates all that God does which leads him to believe God is very great.  It is well worth the read and meditation.  What struck me was the simple truth of the statement above and the reaction this truth had on the writer.  God is very great!  He is greater than our minds can comprehend.  God can become common to us.  He can lose His luster.  God can begin to appear as less than He is because we have forgotten.  Not because He has lost any of what He is.  He is very great.  Because He is, our meditation of Him should be sweet resulting in gladness of soul.

Life has a way of obscuring our sense of God.  We get busy or overwhelmed.  We get discouraged or we get upset.  Life has a way of taking on a life of its own.  It seems we do not have enough time in the day to meditate on the greatness of God.  We nod off to sleep quickly and if the LORD gets a few minutes of our time, that would be generous.  And we wonder why we struggle so much.  Perhaps if we took the time to remember the LORD and how great He is, we would perceive life a whole lot differently. 

The Psalmist takes the time to rehearse all that God is and does.  He does so in the context of things we observe, but cannot understand.  Some of it concerns creation.  Other statements regarding how the LORD patiently works with fallen mankind.  The list is rather extensive.  If we were to stop and meditate on all that the universe is and all God does for us, we cannot help but agree with the writer.  This meditation becomes sweet because we realize that the God who is very great loves us with everlasting love.  Our meditation on the greatness of God becomes sweet because if He can do everything He has done, then whatever we are going through is not too big for Him!  What a wonderful psalm.  A simple one.  One that we need not study hours on end to understand.  A simple reminder that God is great and if we were to meditate on that greatness, our hearts would be full of gladness.