Psalms 92:4

THE GREAT WORKS OF GOD

"For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work:

I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

How great are thy works, O Jehovah!

Thy thoughts are very deep.

A brutish man knoweth not;

Neither doth a fool understand this!"

"Made me glad through thy work" (Psalms 92:4). It is not clear just which works of God gladdened the heart of the psalmist; perhaps the gladness was from "all" of the works of God. Rawlinson supposed that it was probably, "God's work of providence in the world."[4] The starry heavens alone are enough to inspire any thoughtful person with gladness and praise of God.

"Thy thoughts are very deep" (Psalms 92:5). The thoughts of God are beyond the comprehension of any man, regardless of how learned and intelligent he may be. The universe in which we live with its thousands of galaxies arranged according to a pattern in outer space, deployed in an astounding arrangement featuring millions of light years between them, the quasars, the black holes, the jets of astounding energies, the speed of light, the particular attention of God to the tiny speck of matter called `earth,' and a million other things stagger the imagination of the most intelligent man who ever lived.

Of course, it is also true in this connection, as stated by Addis, that, "God's counsels are too deep for the stupid man."[5]

"The evidence for the exalted nature of God's works and thoughts is so great that a man who falls to acknowledge them, must be classified as a brute and a fool."[6] We like Delitzsch's word for such a man, "Homo brutus."[7]

"Man can neither measure the greatness of God's works nor fathom the depths of divine thought. The enlightened man, however, perceives the immeasurableness of the one and the unfathomableness of the other; but a man of animal nature, `homo brutus,' a blockhead, or one dull in mind, whose carnal nature outweighs his intellectual and spiritual nature, cannot discern how unsearchable are God's judgments and how untrackable are his ways."[8]