Highly Exalted

The air is distinctly cooler and the sun’s time is increasingly more brief.  The autumnal equinox has been reached, and we who experience the changing of seasons take notice of the times.  This is a time when we focus our attention on giving thanks for that with which we have been blessed.  During November we are looking at a series of Psalms that articulate the thankfulness of the psalmist to the “Most High.”  This week we consider Psalm 9 and the call to worship the God who is divinely sovereign over the world and passes judgment on those who would oppress the elect.  Psalm 9 reminds us that the God we serve is a righteous and holy God who is our divine protector (v13) and the author of the salvation in which we will rejoice (v14). 

This Psalm makes much of the Lord and in so doing, makes little of the nations.  Indeed, the Lord is sovereign and nothing escapes His notice.  And so when verse 15 says, “The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made; in the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught,” we can conclude that God’s judgment will be carried out according to His purposes even using the folly of the nations including our own.  The psalmist ends with a prayer to God asking that the “nations know that they are but men.”  In this time of Thanksgiving, let us remember the One called “Most High,” and remember where we fall in relation to His holiness and let us rejoice in the grace that has been afforded us in the cross that bore the Christ who bore our iniquities.  Let us give thanks for a sovereign God.