HIS WISDOM, HIS PLAN

 

               

^{Psalm 104:24} O IAUE, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your possessions—
²⁵ This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.
²⁶ There the ships sail about;
There is that Leviathan
Which You have made to play there.

 

74:13You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
¹⁴ You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

 

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I have just learned quite how important it is to be familiar with the scriptures.  However, had I been more familiar, these verses would not have been in my thought today.

 

Psalm 104:24 begins with the psalmist telling IAUE that he knows that he made everything, 'in wisdom'.  There is nothing 'half baked' about IAUE's plan.  There is nothing that is not perfect.  It describes how we (and I include the saints, as we are all part of this) know that the earth is full of IAUE's possessions.  Everything belongs to Him.  Living things, both small and great, are on the earth, both on land and in the sea.  'Innumerable teeming things'.  Lots and lots and lots.  Ships are sailing about in the sea.  They all 'belong' to IAUE.  He sees the ships and their crew through the winds and rain, or He does not.  Either way, it is His perfect plan, and it is done in His wisdom.  There is also Leviathan. Leviathan is depicted as a sea monster.  In modern Hebrew, it is a whale.  A whale in biblical times was considered more of a monster than it is today.  However, in this verse IAUE made Leviathan play in the sea.

 

As I read, I thought that I had seen IAUE breaking the heads of Leviathan.  Not only did I know that there was a verse, but I had just seen it.  It was in the previous verse, so I returned to psalm 74/. 

 

74:13 You divided the seas by Your strength. You broke the heads of the 'sea serpents' in the waters.  (14) You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gave them as food......

 

Everything in this world is made by IAUE in His wisdom.  He gave the sea serpents, and Leviathan to the people to eat.  It makes perfect sense.  Whale meat was used during the war when there was a scarcity of meat and fish.  IAUE made Leviathan in His wisdom.  In verse 104, he makes Him play in the sea.  Leviathan is not such a monster in 104, he is just a creature playing in the sea.  It is something that IAUE has created in His wisdom because there is a time, and there was a time, when the people needed to eat. 

 

IAUE's wisdom is something that we need to understand.