June 2, 2026 - Psalms 66-70

“Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, ‘How awesome are your deeds!  So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.  All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name’” (66:1-4).  All of creation stands in awe of its Creator and, even when it seems that praise is withheld and replaced by contempt, one day, even if unwillingly, everyone and everything will acknowledge God.  Remember Paul’s words?  “God has highly exalted [Jesus] and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).

Jesus, the Name high over all,

in hell or earth or sky;

angels and mortals prostrate fall,

and devils fear and fly.

Jesus, the Name to sinners dear,

the Name to sinners giv’n;

it scatters all their guilty fear,

it turns their hell to heav’n.   --Charles Wesley (1749)