6. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains. Firm and unmoved, lofty and sublime. God is never in any degree
affected by circumstances; he is always just. Not even to save his elect would
the Lord let his righteousness be set aside. No awe inspired by mountain
scenery can equal that which fills the soul when it beholds the Son of God
slain as a victim to vindicate the justice of the inflexible Lawgiver. Right
across the path of every unholy man who dreams of heaven stand the towering
Andes of divine righteousness, which no unregenerate sinner can ever climb. Thyjudgments are a great deep. The Lord is not to be questioned by us as to
why this and why that. He has reasons, but he does not choose to submit them to
our foolish consideration. Far and wide, terrible and irresistible like the
ocean are the providential dispensations of God: at one time they appear as
peaceful as the unrippled sea of glass; at another tossed with tempest and
whirlwind, but evermore most glorious and full of mystery. Yet as the deep
mirrors the sky, so the mercy of the Lord is to be seen reflected in all the
arrangements of his government on earth, and over the profound depth the
covenant rainbow casts its arch of comfort, for the Lord is faithful in all
that he does. O Lord, thoupreservest man and beast. All owe their continuance in life to the
unceasing outgoings of the divine power. What a debased creature must he be who
sees no trace of God, and feels no awe of him!
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