Our God Reigns!

Psalm 97 (NIV): The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice. Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side. His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols – worship him, all you gods! Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O Lord. For you, O Lord, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods. Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name.

Let the whole earth, all of its people and all of creation, rejoice that our God is full of mercy and righteousness. God is so powerful and so holy we cannot fully grasp or understand him. He is shrouded in mystery because of his greatness.
God is so mighty we cannot look at him any more than we can stare at the sun. All of creation trembles before him. The Egyptians died in the Red Sea when they mocked God and pursued his people. One day, all of the enemies of God will be defeated and only righteousness will remain. We can know this and have hope. We can know this and rejoice.
Creation gives us a hint of his greatness. The fine-tuning of the cosmos for life to exist on a razor's edge here on planet earth. The incredible diversity of life on this planet. The complexities of the human body. The fact that humans and only humans can reason and create and communicate and imagine and at the level we can. From the expanse of the universe, which is too large for our minds to comprehend, to the tiniest sub-atomic particles, which are too small for us to grasp, God spoke it all into existence.
Because we live in a fallen world, we have still not seen his full glory. We have not seen all he has in store. Why does everyone not see this? Why do some resist God? Why do some refuse to believe he exists? God is veiled in mystery so that the proud will not see him, but he has revealed himself to the humble. Turn from evil and humbly pursue righteousness and you will see God as clear as creation.