God Above All

“Whom have I in heaven but you?  and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:25-26).  Martyn Lloyd-Jones held that verses 25 and 26 may well describe the normal spiritual experience.  They express the worship and adoration that rises spontaneously upon the contemplation of God’s glory.  We see here the goal of salvation.  Lloyd-Jones opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of these verses.  He said that the whole purpose of redemption was to enable us to speak like the psalmist.  That is brilliant!  We must  come to the realization that no one can help us but God.  Despite all of our failure, God will still be a source of strength to us.  This psalm tells us that the greatest blessing of all is knowing God and living each moment in His presence.  Can we say that we have seen through the facade of the things of this life, so that we desire God above all?  The first commandment is to love God with our whole heart.  To love God we must first have knowledge of Him.  In the words of Lloyd-Jones, “The first thing, the most important thing in life, is that we so know God that we love Him with the whole of our being.  To be satisfied with anything short of that, or with anything less than that is to misunderstand the whole end and object and purpose of Christian salvation.”