March 15 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Psalm 24:

¹The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
²For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
³Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
⁵He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
⁷Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
⁸Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
⁹Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
¹⁰Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Devotional

Everything in the world speaks of the infinite glory of God. Even the smallest flower voices in its way the divine power and limitless majesty of our great Creator. The vast seas and the mighty mountains cause us to stand in awe before the eternal Sovereign who made them. The world is indeed filled with the wonderful works of God - and man, who himself is fearfully and wonderfully made, should also see the handiwork of his Creator in himself as well as in the entire earth. He should cry with the psalmist that the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Unbelieving men are without excuse when they think and act as if the world belonged to them. It is utter folly for them to suppose that the earth and its fulness and those who dwell therein can be known and rightly interpreted apart from the Sovereign who made all things, who rules all things, and who owns all things. Apart from God they would not, they could not, exist; they could not think; they could not even ignore or deny the existence of God. If anything is to have meaning, the infinite, eternal, and unchangeable God must exist and must have made all things, and must be sovereign over all things. The earth must be the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein!

Welcome to "Think on These Things," a twelve-week daily devotional prepared by the late Dr. John H. Skilton, an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and for many years Chairman of the New Testament Department at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

We are indebted to P & R Publishing and Skilton House Ministries for permission to use this copyrighted material on the OPC Web site. (P & R held the copyright from 1975 to 2005, at which time they reassigned the copyright to Skilton House.)