It's not my intent here to be dogmatic, but by the nature of the title you can see that I'm going to take a strong stance.
In music, specifically blues there's this phenomenon called a 'call' and 'answer'. Usually it's two guitar virtuoso's trying to outdo one another to impress the crowd. Similarly there is a call and answer in God's methods.
The psalmist says that God's words are like honey on his tongue, and that he has learned to hate the wicked, and to learn God's laws, and that they are a lamp unto his feet and a light unto his path. That's the answer.
God's words ARE like honey, because they are true, they are right and fixed by his own authority. He answered to no one, agrees with no one, compromises with no one, owes no one anything, nor can anyone counsel God. All good things come from Heaven. That's the call...and everyone he calls, answers.
So then, we must admit that God, by his own wisdom and authority, is in charge over everything. Including the most depraved part of us; our sin.
Why must we hold that view?; because to do anything else is to deny God his authority. Would you openly accuse God of not knowing something? Or would you even allow the thought to bear that there is something he's not in control over? You may appeal to mystery, and I accept that. But I do not accept that there is anything outside of God's control and to believe otherwise is to believe falsely about God. If you believe falsely about the most basic premise of his nature, how can down-level knowledge of his attributes be trusted in the way in which we live our lives? That's the question I ask myself. I say, you can't.
2 comments:
Not sure why half of what you said is in the post. The music reference is not at all necessary and serves only as a distraction.
The Psalmist calls Gods word, "Honey" because he has found in his life's experience that the keeping of the word and the meditation on the word is exceedingly good to the soul.
While that represents a strong case for the keeping of the word, it doesn't support God's sovereignty. Unless you wanted to support that life follow's the law/principles that God ordained for this world, and that the Psalmist is merely basking in the joy of following the roadmap (God's word/law) against its trials.
Also, how/why are you linking Sovereignty and Omniscience?
Just curious, do the words we use to describe a thing make a thing, or do they attemtp to convey meaning to others about our experience/understanding of a thing?
Admittedly, this is a hurried post. It's not communicated well. I had a slight epiphany with a comparison and I didn't think it all out.
The call and the answer have to do with the fact that God's call is effective, the psalmist says these things because the spirit inspires him to. The call and answer is in effect to demonstrate, that while we participate in the worship of God, the Glory of such a thing still belongs to him...even for what we do. That is to say, his words, call us, and by his word, we answer.
Agreed though, this post is not well written.
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