Psalm 33
Pt. 2

Having urged the believing to worship and praise the Lord for His Righteousness, David turned his attention to the Basic Relationship that natural man has with God. He is Creator and man is created. The sheer difference in those two levels of status is beyond computation. That which man struggles to even understand and quantify God fashioned from nothing.

5 ……the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

Paul said:
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;

Not seen to the natural and carnal eye of man is the goodness of YHVH, the Great God of the Universe. It underlines the truth that the discernment of God is only by His Enabling, by Grace, and without that man remains spiritually blind.

David from seemingly an early time in his life had lived with a particular attitude toward Creation. It exists, he reasoned, by a special creative act of the Almighty therefore it held keys and clues concerning Him and in it David saw reminders of a number of His Attributes, one of them being His Goodness.

But also His Greatness and Power.

6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

It is clear that he was familiar with the book of Genesis and Moses’ account of the forming and fashioning of the earth. The Word and the Spirit as participants in Creation were clear and obvious to him. Genesis records clearly the role of the Holy Spirit but humanity would need to wait until the NT to comprehend fully that the Word is also one of the Persons of the Trinity. (John 1:1)

Gen 1:1-3
1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Clearly David believed in the Inspiration and Reliability of Scriptures. It was the duty of any king which sat to rule the people of God that he make for himself a written copy of the Word of God as revealed to that point. It is obvious from reading after him that this king had done exactly that.

Deut 17:15-19

 15   Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from
 among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,
 which is not thy brother.
 16   But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end
 that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth
 return no more that way.
 17   Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly
 multiply to himself silver and gold.
 18   And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of
 this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
 19   And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear
 the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

And, then, as biblical writers do, he moved from the grand sweep of Creation in his mind to a practical application of it, “Fear the Lord.”

8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Because He has created such as we see and has sustained it man is to consider His great Power and Might, standing and holding Him in awe. Such a Being is able to do anything He pleases and should be reverenced, among many other things, for His Power.

— May 20, 2020