The Lord
is king! Let the earth rejoice unless lit up by the Lord’s lightning the earth
trembles. Let the coastlands be glad unless occupied by adversaries the coastlands are consumed. Psalm 97 imagines the mountains melting like wax and the Lord
surrounded by clouds and thick darkness bringing it on like Iron Man. But for
those rescued from the hand of the wicked and loved for hating evil the Lord is
like the gentle light of dawn bringing joy to the upright who have survived the
night. Here in lies the rub between judgment and justice, penalty and pity, the
ones forgiven for eternity and those whose eternal punishment seems to outweigh
the crime. How do we bow down before the throne of the Lord as King Iron Man
and at the same time proclaim the servant God of Grace? It may be that the Lord
as King brings a world of hurt to whoever boasts in worthless idols but the
gospel proclaims a God whose heart melting like wax within him, his hands
nailed to wood by the wicked, forgives those who knowing full well what they
were doing didn’t have a clue why he allowed it to be done to him. So rejoice
in the Lord then, you who have been made righteous by the Lord as King, who
forgave the wicked in the same way the God of Grace forgave you.
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