Psalm 33:12-15 - April 6, 2009

Ps 33:12-15 "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance. 13 From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind; 14 from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth — 15 he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do." NIV

The blessed nation is the nation that chooses to serve the Lord! In these times of shaking, as nation after nation is trembling under the consequences of poor economic strategies and overwhelming debt loads the call to return to the Lord resounds louder and louder over the span of the whole earth. Joel chapter two calls the people of the earth to return to the Lord with fasting and prayer, to repent of those practices and habits that contradict God’s ways. In His Word God promises blessing upon those who honor Him and obey His commands and He promises that days of judgment are in store for those who reject the Lord. It is important to realize that it is not with a primary purpose of destruction that these judgments come,
but rather with a desire to restore the earth to a place of surrender and obedience.
Hebrews 12 tells us that the Lord disciplines those He loves.
The Lord is watching over all of His creation with His eyes fixed upon the heart of man. As psalm 33:15 says the Lord considers everything that men do. What a powerful reminder to know that the Lord is watching and He is thinking about everything that we do. The Lord is conscious of each decision a nation makes and each choice a person makes. In his infinite wisdom and omniscience God knows that which is done in secret and that which is performed for all to see. The teaching of Christ confirms this as he teaches his disciples in Mt. 6:4 that all of the acts of devotion they do in secret will be seen by the Lord and rewarded openly. Let every man and every nation live in the light of this knowledge. The Lord is watching! I believe that if we were to embrace this reality as the underlying influence in all of our decisions that the nations would quickly be set in order and the heart of every man would be turned into the path of God’s blessing.
Today, live conscious of the audience that is watching every affair of your life!