THE LORD IS GREAT

 

The Lord is great.
Psalm 135:5
 

WE shall never rightly estimate the Lord’s goodness,
  except we realize something of his greatness.
 
His greatness is unsearchable.
 
And after our most extensive and laborious investigations,
  we must exclaim with the patriarch,
    “How little a portion is heard of him!”
 
Of the greatness of his nature, or
  the grandeur of his perfections,
  we can have no adequate conception:
     heaven is his throne, and
     the earth is his footstool.
 
“Behold, the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and
  are counted as the small dust of the balance:
  behold, the taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
  All nations before him are a nothing; and
   they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity.”
 
His thoughts,
  his purposes, and
    his plans are great.
 
His promises are great and precious.
 
Greatness is impressed upon every thing he does.
 
Does he pardon sin?
  He does it like himself, perfectly and for ever.
 
Does he provide supplies?
  They are vast as his resources,
    eternal as his existence, and
    varied as our wants.
 
Does he save his people?
  It is with a great salvation== from great sins,
  from great suffering,
    at a great price,
     by a great Saviour,
      to great happiness and glory.
 

And will this glorious Lord descend

To be my Father and my Friend?

Then let my songs with angels join;

Heaven is secure if God be mine.

 
James Smith 1849