How does Psalm 145:3 connect with other scriptures about God's greatness? Psalm 145:3 — Anchor Verse “Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.” How “unsearchable greatness” threads through Scripture • Job 11:7-9 — “Can you fathom the deep things of God…? They are higher than the heavens… deeper than Sheol… longer than the earth and wider than the sea.” • Job 26:14 — “These are but the fringes of His ways… Who can understand the thunder of His power?” • Romans 11:33 — “O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways!” • Psalm 147:5 — “Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.” God’s greatness is literally beyond measurement. Scripture keeps reminding us that even the small glimpse we have is only the “fringes” of who He is. Greatness celebrated in worship • Exodus 15:11 — “Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?” • 1 Chronicles 29:11 — “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You.” • Psalm 95:3 — “For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.” • Psalm 96:4 — “For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.” • Revelation 4:11 — “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they exist, and came to be.” The same language of “great” and “worthy” flows straight from the Psalms into the praise of heaven, showing a seamless call for both earthly and heavenly worship. Greatness displayed in creation and providence • Isaiah 40:12 — “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand… or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?” • Isaiah 40:26 — “Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these?… by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power not one is missing.” • Nehemiah 9:6 — “You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens… the earth and all that is on it… and the multitudes of heaven worship You.” The vast scale of the universe is Scripture’s object lesson: if creation is that immense, the Creator’s greatness is infinitely more. Greatness revealed in redemption and power toward us • Ephesians 3:20 — “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.” • Colossians 1:13-14 — “He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness… in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” • 1 Timothy 6:15-16 — “He who is the blessed and only Sovereign… who alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light.” God’s greatness is not remote; it personally rescues, empowers, and sustains believers. Key takeaways for daily life • Praise has a firm foundation: God’s greatness is factual, limitless, and proven in Scripture and history. • Worship should be expansive—words like “great,” “unsearchable,” and “immeasurably more” stretch our vocabulary so our hearts don’t shrink God. • Confidence grows: if His greatness rules over creation and redemption, it rules over today’s challenges. • Humility results: faced with unsearchable greatness, we stand in awe rather than presume to manage or downsize God. Psalm 145:3 opens the door; the rest of Scripture walks us through room after room filled with the overwhelming, incomparable greatness of the Lord. |
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