Come To Your Senses

Psalm 66

"He's coming to..." is a phrase used when a person has been knocked out by a blow to the head or maybe has been under a anesthetic for some required surgery. Then added to that "Come to your senses man!" may be used when someone chooses to do something outlandish or not in the standard idea or prevalent way of thinking. In nearly forty years of experience in the electronics hardware and computer software industries in my particular areas of expertise I encountered with nearly every company where I was employed (only six, maybe seven) things that I did during the course of my time at each things that I did where respected coworkers couldn't figure out how or why I had done something related to work that made an improvement or work no one understood what I was doing, some no one was willing to do, but all though not understood by others, yet saved the company time, money, improved products, some products saved from being scrapped and more. And I came up against more than once the thought "That's not the way it's done." was expressed

When we grow up hearing about the Psalms most get an idea that the psalms are all about the glories, that thought of "glories" being what a psalm like Psalm 66 says:

To him that excelleth. A song or Psalm.

Rejoice in God, all ye inhabitants of the earth.

Sing forth the glory of his name:

make his praise glorious.

Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be in subiection unto thee.

All the world shall worship thee, and sing unto thee, even sing of thy Name. Selah.

Psalms 66:1 - 4 GNV

Rejoice, sing, praise, His works, greatness of His power, worship, and again sing are all thoughts of what we may immediately characterize all psalms. In exploring the life of Jesus Christ in His humanity being fully man, the Word who became fleah and dwelt among us, and yes, we beheld His glory, it has been seen going through many psalms the darkness of the struggle of man captured perfectly as different men were very strained spiritually and emotionally. In fact I wouldn't doubt but that some might have said, Richard, come to your senses. You can't characterize Jesus that way. They insist on the fully God part of Jesus being "in control" when when Jesus met with difficulties.

But the flip side also can be true. Having looked at many psalms so far and having asked myself "What did Jesus do?", especially those that challenge the depths of our own humanity we must "come to our senses" recognizing that we can also be caught up in what scientifically we are told our senses can, well, sense. While "being emotional" isn't our goal (or shouldn't be) it can be a human result of seeing all God is, not with our physical eyes, but as Elisha prayed for His servant's eyes to be opened to see what Elisha knew to be there the great host of God's fiery chariots surrounding them with God's mighty, terrible (or awesome) power of God's hand of protection. And we begin to spiritually see and, yes, feel the reality of that we cannot physically see. A song I love to hear and sing, "I sing the mighty power of God who made the mountains rise." Though every psalm is not of this nature making us realize that everyday is not a psalm of this nature, how powerful it is to grab hold and come to our spiritual senses in the greatness of praise to all that God is.