How great are your works, O LORD!
Your thoughts are very deep!
The stupid man cannot know;
the fool cannot understand this:
that though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
For behold, your enemies, O LORD,
for behold, your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.
God is deep. It is not a secret that mankind wants to understand God and wants to put Him in a box of understanding. Mankind loves to study topics and discover the ins and outs of those topics. Man then likes to boast about what he knows about that topic or subject. This is what we do. But, when it comes to God, how can the finite understand the infinite? God has given us His Word to make known the infinite, however. In the above song we read that the “stupidity” of man, his willful ignorance toward God makes it impossible to even understand this own death. That is what the above stanzas are referring to in this psalm. The point the composer is making is that God is so deep and His work is so profound, the natural man, without the the Spirit of God, has no understanding of even the most obvious thing in his life, his death. God is deep. Paul stated it this way to the Corinthians:
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Only by the Spirit of God do we understand the things of God. We need to allow the Spirit to teach us how great are your works, O LORD!!
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