Decrees Worth Trusting
Psalm 93:5 – “Your decrees are very trustworthy.”
Read: Psalm 93:1–5
The sign at the shallow end of the swimming pool says, “No diving.” Why should you take that sign seriously?
The light at the intersection is red. Why should you stop?
Your teacher tells you to be quiet and listen carefully in class. Why should you obey?
The person who made the rule at the swimming pool knows how disastrous it can be to dive head-first into shallow water. If you don’t stop at that red light, you’re putting yourself and other drivers in danger. And if you don’t pay attention in class, you’re not going to learn. Rules like these are there for a reason. And if we know what’s good for us, we’ll do our best to obey those rules.
When the psalmist addresses the Lord in the last verse of Psalm 93 and says, “Your decrees are very trustworthy,” he’s building on the statements that he’s already made in this psalm. The Lord reigns, and because he reigns, we can know that the world shall never be moved. The Lord’s reign is without limit. All of creation is under his control. And the Lord’s decrees are trustworthy precisely because he reigns, because he is majestic, because he has established and founded the world, and because the forces of “nature” are under his control.
From eternity, the Lord has been the sole, absolute, and perfect God, the Creator and sustainer of all things. Because of this, we can know that his decrees aren’t arbitrary. God doesn’t make decrees based on a personal whim, or for no particular reason. He has given his decrees for our benefit, and for his glory. Obeying God, the almighty, everlasting, ever-present God of the universe, simply makes sense.
The Lord has shown that he is trustworthy in the way he perfectly upholds his creation, but he has made it even more clear to us in sending his Son, Jesus Christ. He sent the Saviour, the Messiah, to deliver his people from sin and death. Even though his people often forgot him, and broke their promises to him again and again, he has never broken a promise. So we can know with even greater certainty than the psalmist had that the Lord’s decrees are truly trustworthy. You can have absolute confidence in him. Let that trust be proven real by your obedience to his decrees, because they are, indeed, “very trustworthy.”
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