Common Grace and Worship (Common Grace, Part 6)
Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD from the heavens;
Praise Him in the heights!
Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His hosts! Psalm 148.1, 2
The goal of common grace
As we saw in Psalm 104, as well as in the poem, “Pied Beauty,” the common grace of God leads those who observe it to worship and praise the Lord. This is precisely as God intends. The end for which God does anything, including pervade and sustain the world with common grace, is to glorify Himself.
Not That Way!
The Law of God for Daily Meditation
Morning Meditation
Exodus 23.23-25, 32, 33
23“For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. 24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars. 25So you shall serve the LORDyour God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you…32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods… 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For ifyou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Sojourners and Pilgrims
1 Peter 2.11
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul…
Psalm 106:8-12
Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert. So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy. […]
