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Psalm 33: The Word That Made the World

Here is a psalm that asks us to do something very difficult: to hold together, in a single thought, the God who made the stars by speaking and the God who watches over the hungry. "He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast." There is a terrifying simplicity in that — the entire cosmos summoned into existence by a sentence. And yet this same God, whose counsel stands forever and whose thoughts outlast all generations, is not a distant engineer admiring his machinery from afar. He looks. He beholds. He fashions every heart and considers every work. The psalm insists that no king is saved by the size of his army and no warrior by the strength of his arm — which must have sounded as absurd in the ancient world as it sounds in ours. But the psalmist is not naive; he is seeing clearly. The eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, and that single gaze is worth more than every horse and chariot ever mustered.

00:00 Rejoice, Ye Righteous
01:00 He Spake and It Was Done
02:00 The Eye of the Lord