Preservest Man and Beast

“Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.” (Psalm 36:6)

Man tends to think of God’s role in their life in terms of before and after, mainly after. Man thinks of being a creation of God and of where he is going, Heaven or Hell. He comprehends God’s participation in the past and future. But the now is something else.

“O Lord, thou preservest man and beast”, the word, “preservest” comes from the Hebrew, “Yasha”. The KJV Bible also transliterated yasha as, “to save”, “rescue”, and “deliver”. All of these actions are in the present tense.

God plays a very active role in all of our lives right now. Not only our lives, but God sustains, maintains, preserves and saves all of His creations every second of all time. All things would cease to be if God removed His hand.

Too many people think that when God rested on the 7^th day after creation, that His active involvement with His creation stopped.

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” (Genesis 2:2).

Where the creation ended, the sustaining began.

“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:10)

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Hebrews 4:12-13).

Prayers aren’t a wake-up call or some way to get God’s attention. You’ve got His attention. He is in your life. Prayers are a conversation with the Supreme God. It’s something we all need and that God hopes for.

Bill Hitchcock