Behold the angry giant1/24/2024 ![]() The irony of ironies is that Apple's policy, on a product which does not exist, has creating instant and irresistible pricing pressure on the world's largest online retailer. Five major publishers, including Macmillan, were part of the launch, and Apple said they would be free to charge more. The gathering storm began with last week's announcement of the iPad. The publisher insisted on charging $12.99 to $14.99 for its books, even though it, too, was receiving the wholesale price commensurate with that higher price anyway.Īmazon had briefly banished Macmillan titles after the publisher complained about $10 books, but it blinked on Sunday and, in a brief Kindle forum post, said it had "capitulated" because "Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles." That is cause for rejoicing! Let us tremble at His grandeur, and let us rejoice in his grace and mercy.After two days of bravado over the weekend, Amazon bowed to pressure from Macmillan. ![]() For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” The grand creator of the universe cared about you and me enough to sacrifice himself on our behalf. But he didn’t, Paul tells us in Romans, “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Then the miser grew angry, and said, Oh, but I cant make any use of you, you strike far too powerfully. ![]() God in grandeur could have sat in heaven and watched his fallen creation go down in flames. 02-04-2023 Fairy tale: The young giant - Grimm. The verse doesn’t end on trembling, the verse ends with rejoicing. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can.” It is not even possible for us to fully wrap our minds around just how huge God is.įrancis Chan says it well in his book Crazy Love, “Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. As space exploration continues and we see just how big the universe is…God is bigger. We should tremble because as giant as those oceans seem, God is bigger. Psalm 104:31-32 says, “May the glory of the Lord endure forever may the Lord rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles…” Have we grown so comfortable in our own skin, and so comfortable with the small picture of God we created that we no longer tremble at the thought of Him? When I say tremble, I don’t mean because God is angry or abusive, but because He is GRAND. The verse continues, “Kings and nations tremble at His voice, all creation rises to rejoice.” What a perfect picture of the reality of the grandeur of God. As you gaze out to the ocean, what is the furthest thing you can see? Ocean! God created that, ponder that for a little bit. Have you ever ventured to the ocean on vacation? In just the spot you put your towel down on there are thousands of little grains of sand underneath you. Our God is the one who created the mighty oceans we see, and he created all of those tiny little pieces of sand. The first verse of this song helps put things in perspective, “Who has held the oceans in His hands? Who has numbered every grain of sand?” Have I? No. Sometimes in our own little world we lose sight of just how big, and how grand God is. “Who has held the oceans in His hands? Who has numbered every grain of sand? King’s and nations tremble at His voice, All creation rises to rejoice!” So what I would like to do for my next few blogs is break down this song verse by verse and explore the truths packed into this song. If you think about it that’s a lot to fit into one song, and that is a lot for us to sing and then just move onto the next song. This song at the heart of it is a song that captures God’s grandeur, genius, gospel, and glory. If you haven’t had an opportunity to hear the song or sing it with us I invite you to listen to it HERE. The song is “Behold Our God” put out by Sovereign Grace Ministries. There is one song in particular that we sing and each and every time it blows me away. I get to lead our congregation in song, declaring through music the greatness of God and beauty of the gospel.
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