Psalm Devotional
King Indeed!
A common objection to the sovereignty of God is the perennially wretched state of the world: “If God is good, why do bad things happen?” But just ask, “Who does the bad things?” and anyone will tell you that, aside from natural disasters, people are the evildoers! Then ask what the world would look like without the God of all comfort, the gospel in His Son Jesus, a faithful Church serving the Lord, transformed lives, and loving people doing good things.
The answer is in Genesis 6:5-8, in the days before the Flood: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was very great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” God’s just reaction was to say, “I will blot out man.” And that is what He did, with the exception of Noah, who “found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
Andrew Bonar rightly says Psalm 99 “is throughout a Psalm proclaiming the untarnished perfection of the King, Messiah ruling in holiness” (Christ and His Church in the Psalms, p. 295). Under the name “Lord”–the covenant God–it is Christ the Lord who is in view. This is unfolded in a three-part argument:
