A Pequeños Y A Grandes

Psalms 115

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

Amos 8:11 GNV

"The Lord Has Been Mindful" was the original title I had chosen. Yes, this is my meditation, my ponderings, my wandering of thoughts. Again, even daily I find that as my ponderings wander I seem to find myself feeling like a famine has hit. Lord, I remember seeming to have been much closer to you when I wrote that last meditation, even through the week preparing it. After all it is for me, but then, my life isn't only for me. And I feel empty again. Oh, I have had sufficient food, but Lord, I feel far from you. The thought of my life not being for myself, well, that leaves a wide open number of people I interact with on a daily basis. It reminds me of the word used in early Bible versions, "conversation" as in "Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:27). As I often explain the type of conversation it means, it's what your life says to others. And in thinking of others that is where Psalms 115:13 yields the title for this post, "A Pequeños Y A Grandes", "The Small And The Great". It matters not how the quantitative words are used, physical size, financial size, culture size, IQ size, any size, all sizes from the small and to the great are covered. Isaiah says it better.

[2] And there shall be like people, like Priest, and like servant, like master, like maid, like mistress, like buyer, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giver, like taker to usury.

Isaiah 24:2 GNV

The real contrast is in the greatness of these opening lines of the psalm to that which is spoken of shortly after them.

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give the glory, for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake.

Psalms 115:1 GNV

It matters not in which way a person may be small or great because it is not unto us that is to be grasped. It is for the glory of the Name of the Lord, and His mercy and His truth.

It came to me that small and great alike must know that the Lord is mindful of them in His Name, mercy, and truth. We are His creation no matter who we are or what our place we find ourselves in in this life. It is the Lord's Name, mercy, and truth that deserves glory.

But then another potential title for my meditation was "They Have". Small and great see what they, those around them have. "They Have" would simply be because a major downfall in the life of everyone may be traced to what "they, those around us have". In this psalm the blatant competition for the heart is what "they have" versus what the Lord has for us. When the years of the judges were coming to a close the children of Israel now having dwelt hundreds of years in the promised land were out of sorts because "all the other nations have a physical king, we want one too"? We need someone to show other nations we have a king the same way they do. It fits into their situation as spoken of as the final condition of the people from the era of the judges at this point, "every man did that which is right in his own eyes" (see the book of Judges). But time and again throughout the book of the Judges we are told the people went whoring after other gods. Whoring? Yes, whoring. Why? Like Achan at Jericho when the people were told to take nothing, Aachan like Eve in the garden of Eden, "saw it was good..., pleasant to the eyes, desired to ..., she took" (Genesis 3:6) regardless that the Lord told them “No”. Ever since then the first three commandments of the Ten Commandments have been that of contention by people whoring against the Name, the mercy, and the truth of the Lord. Why did the people continually go whoring against the Lord? Because they saw what others had, and it was pleasant to their eyes, it was to be desired to make them more than what they saw ofthemselves. It mattered not that their children were burned to death to "appease their gods", to commit vile acts of other physical abuse, the very reasons the Lord cast those nations out of Caanan, they violate every command the Lord plainly gave them. And so the idols, graven images representing the gods of all they saw, found pleasant, desired came with it all because they wrong assumed those gods brought all of that and became a "necessary" part of their lives so they supposedly could see more, have greater pleasure, and desire even more, because these idols, these gods "made it all" possible. After all these gods were made out of silver, made out of gold, so didn't "they have" it all? Well, that's the part they no longer considered in their whoring. Consider those images made out of those precious medals silver and gold

“They have” a mouth - and speak not:

“they have eyes - and see not.

They have” ears - and hear not:

“they have” noses - and smell not.

“They have” hands - and touch not:

“they have” feet - and walk not:

neither make they a sound with their throat.

Psalms 115:5-7 GNV

But they sure look nice, and are pleasant, and are desirable, or are they really? Did any of them ever stop and think this through? Do we?

They that make them are like unto them: so are all that trust in them.

Psalms 115:8 GNV

They saw what the nations around them had, and it all looked so pleasant, and seemed so desirable, and the same what the Devil tempted Eve with was that it was a spiritual endeavor (you shall be like the gods). But the harsh truth is as said here, they that trust them are like them,

They that trust them have a mouth, but say nothing, have eyes, but see nothing, have ears, but hear nothing, have noses, but smell nothing, have hands, but touch nothing, have feet, but go nowhere, have throats, but make no sound. Whatever they do in life can it even be trusted? Just like spiritual death this reflects their abilities in all spiritual things. Not being able to speak to the Lord, see the Lord, in any other way sense the Lord's presence? that is true famine.

But how important to know that the Lord has been mindful of us. Trust in the Lord. He is Israel's help and shield. He is the house of Aaron's help and shield. Yet another title for this meditation appears. That title? "He Is Our Help And Shield". This is the great reality in His Name, His mercy, and His truth.

The Lord hath been mindful of us:

he will bless,

he will bless the house of Israel,

he will bless the house of Aaron.

He will bless them that fear the Lord,

both small and great.

Psalms 115:12-13 GNV