AUGUST 16

THE LORD IS GREAT

“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.” (Psalm 48:1)

“The Lord is great in Zion; and He is high above all the people.” (Ps. 99:2)

Webster has defined the word great this way: GREAT alone expresses degree, and figuratively suggests eminence, distinction. The Lord is great! He is in the highest degree in Zion. Only as we progress into the Light do we really begin to realize how great is our God, that He truly is GOD. Sovereign, omnipotent, totally God.

Christendom has long dwelt in the shadows, and limited the Holy One of Israel, while they have magnified the Devil. The bigger their devil became in their consciousness, the smaller their god becomes in their awareness of Him. But the more you walk on in the light, the more your soul responds to sing, “HOW GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART.” To say with Psalm 77: 13, “Who is so great a god as our God?”

“Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.” (Isa. 12:6).

While in all things He must have the pre-eminence, for HE IS ABOVE ALL, yet when the Lord shall appear in Zion in His glory, His firstfruits also shall appear before Him in Zion, to share His glory, and so we read, "Thy gentleness (or, Thy humility) hath made me great." (Ps. 18:35). He who was great –– "He who was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich." (2 Cor. 8:9). What grace is extended to us that we might be made partakers of His greatness. Yet let it ever be clear, we are only great in the measure that HE is great in us. ""Not I, but Christ liveth in me."" His life becoming the totality of our life.

The humility of God is one of the significant factors of His greatness. Because HE IS great, He was able to empty Himself for us, meet us on the basis of poverty, then having freely given us all things, lift us up into His greatness, to become one in Himself.

Ray Prinzing