You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.
Sometimes we see the world through glasses. The glasses of uncertainty, the glasses of fear, the glasses of negativity or materialism – these “glasses” all do us the disservice of lying to us about God! You see, God is the great Creator of all things; the entire world is His creation and His property. So if we look at the world around us and think, Man! Between ISIL and ebola this world is falling apart! I am in big trouble! We are actually saying something about God. We are sayingthat God isn’t big enough, or strong enough, or loving enough to care for his children! That, my friends, is a terribly wrong attitude. The Psalmist shares a very different view: instead of looking at the world around him, he looks at God, and confidently declares that God crowns our year with goodness and dripping abundance!
But some will say, “God will not bless me – I am a sinner, and I keep failing to the same old sin! How can God bless me?” Don’t think that way! The Psalmist tells us why he is so happy and joyous in God’s provision: “When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions….You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior.” The reason the Psalmist is so certain of God’s provision is the abundance of God’s mercy and forgiveness for sins! Think about it – if God would send His Son to shed his blood for us, why wouldn’t he also care for and protect us? And so we can declare confidently with the Psalmist that God crowns our year with goodness and abundance.
~John
