I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. And Why Not Be The Love, Share The Love, And Radiate The Love… Of The Living God Within Us… As Originally Intended? After All, The World Is Not So Big Now, As Once Perceived; Our Far Away Family And Friends Are Now Even Closer Than Ever… With One Touch Of A Finger.
Yet Outer Technology, Indeed, At It’s Very Best… Can Never Replace The Love, The Inner Workings, The Synchronicity And Power Of An Individual’s Inherent Divinity – Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”; For It Is The Only Power In This World – Freely Given To Everyone – That Can Help Us, Heal Us, Renew And Redeem Us; The Only Power… In This Universe… That Can Transform The Mind And Atomic Structure Of An Individual; And Give Eternal Life… Without Compromising The Integrity… Of God’s Original Creation. Amen… 🤗💜💜💜
Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life… 🙏🏾💞
And Y’all Be Love… 💗💗💗
“For the comfort and joy of his own people (Psalm 68:3), “Let the righteous be glad, that are now in sorrow; let them rejoice before God in his favourable Presence. God is the joy of his people; let them rejoice whenever they come before God, yea, let them exceedingly rejoice, let them rejoice with gladness.”
Note: Those who rejoice in God have reason to rejoice with exceeding joy; and this joy we ought to wish to all the saints, for it belongs to them. Light is sown for the righteous.
… As a great God, infinitely great (Psalm 68:4), He rides upon the heavens, by his name Jah. He is the spring of all the motions of the heavenly bodies, directs and manages them, as he that rides in the chariot sets it agoing, has a supreme command of the influences of heaven; he rides upon the heavens for the help of his people (Deuteronomy 33:26), so swiftly, so strongly, and so much above the reach of opposition. He rules these by his name Jah, or Jehovah, a self-existent self-sufficient being; the fountain of all being, power, motion, and perfection; this is his name forever. When we thus extol God, we must rejoice before him. Holy joy in God will very well consist with that reverence and godly fear, wherewith we ought to worship him.
As a gracious God, a God of mercy and tender compassion: He is great, but he despises not any, no, not the meanest; nay, being a God of great power, he uses his power for the relief of those that are distressed, Psalm 68:5-6. The fatherless, the widows, the solitary, find him a God all-sufficient to them. Observe how much God’s goodness is his glory. He that rides on the heavens by his name Jah, one would think should immediately have been adored as King of kings and Lord of lords, and the sovereign director of all the affairs of states and nations. He is so, but this he rather glories in, that he is a Father of the fatherless. Though God be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly. Happy are those that have an interest in such a God as this. He that rides upon the heavens is a Father worth having; thrice happy are the people whose God is the Lord.
When families are bereaved of their head, God takes care of them, and is himself their head; and the widows and the fatherless children shall find that in him which they have lost in the relation that is removed, and infinitely more and better. He is a Father of the fatherless, to pity them, to bless them, to teach them, to provide for them, to portion them. He will preserve them alive (Jeremiah 49:11), and with him they shall find mercy, Hosea 14:3. They have liberty to call him Father, and to plead their relation to him as their guardian, (Psalms 146:9, 10:14, 10:18). He is a judge or patron of the widows, to give them counsel and to redress their grievances, to own them and plead their cause (Proverbs 22:23).
He has an ear open to all their complaints and a hand open to all their wants. He is so in his holy habitation, which may be understood either of the habitation of his glory in heaven (there he has prepared his throne of judgment, which the fatherless and widow have free recourse to, and are taken under the protection of, or of the habitation of his grace on earth; and so it is a direction to the widows and fatherless how to apply to God; let them go to his holy habitation, to his word and ordinances; there they may find him and find comfort in him.
When families are to be built up, he is the founder of them: God sets the solitary in families, brings those into comfortable relations that were lonely, gives those a convenient settlement that were unsettled (Psalm 113:9); he makes those dwell at home that were forced to seek for relief abroad, putting those that were destitute into a way of getting their livelihood, which is a very good way for man’s charity as it is of God’s bounty.
As a righteous God, In relieving the oppressed, He brings out those that are bound with chains, and sets those at liberty who were unjustly imprisoned and brought into servitude. No chains can detain those whom God will make free. In reckoning with the oppressors, the rebellious dwell in a dry land and have no comfort in that which they have got by fraud and injury. The best land will be a dry land to those, that by their rebellion, have forfeited the blessing of God, which is the juice and fatness of all our enjoyments.
… The gracious promise which God makes of the redemption of his people, and their victory over his and their enemies (Psalm 68:22-23), The Lord said, in his own gracious purpose and promise, “I will do great things for my people, as the God of their salvation”. God will not fail the expectations of those who by faith take him for their God. It is promised that he will set them in safety from their danger, as he had done formerly: “I will again bring them from the depths of the sea”, as he did Israel when he brought them out of the slavery of Egypt into the ease and liberty of the wilderness.
… Note: The former appearances of God’s power and goodness for his people should encourage their faith and hope in him for the future, that what he has done, he will do again. He will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people (Isaiah 11:11); and we may perhaps see repeated all the wonders which our fathers told us of.
… Because of his supreme and sovereign dominion, He rides upon the heavens of heavens which were of old (Psalm 68:33). He has from the beginning, nay from before all time, prepared his throne; he sits on the circuit of heaven, guides all the motions of the heavenly bodies; and from the highest heavens, which are the residence of his glory, he dispenses the influences of his power and goodness to this lower world.
Because of his awful and terrible majesty: He sends out his voice, and that a mighty voice. This may refer either generally to the thunder, which is called the voice of the Lord and is said to be powerful and full of majesty (Psalm 29:3-4), or in particular to that thunder in which God spoke to Israel at Mount Sinai.
Because of his mighty power, ascribe you strength unto God (Psalm 68:34); acknowledge him to be a God of such irresistible power, that it is folly to contend with him and wisdom to submit to him. Acknowledge that he has power sufficient both to protect his faithful subjects and to destroy his stubborn adversaries; and give him the glory of all the instances of his omnipotence. Thine is the kingdom and power, and therefore thine is the glory.
We must acknowledge his power In the kingdom of grace, His excellency is over Israel. He shows his sovereign care in protecting and governing his church that is the excellency of his power, which is employed for the good of his people. And in the kingdom of providence, His strength is in the clouds, whence comes the thunder of his power, the small rain, and the great rain of his strength.”
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, Psalm 68, by Matthew Henry, 1706
