“He is Yahweh, our God;

In all the earth are His judgments.”

(Psalm 105:7)

When we hear the language of God being our God, sometimes we don’t take time to think through the significance of that statement. For instance, as God, He has the right to demand obedience from us. He has the right to define the men and women we are to be, and He has the right to define what it means to be a man or woman. If He is our God, he not only can demand obedience but also worship. It means that no others can lay an absolute claim on our lives. It means that since He is God and we are creation, the relationship that we have with Him is one that He generates. To borrow the words of C.S. Lewis, if Hamler were ever to meet Shakespeare, it would have to be Shakespeare’s doing.

Because He is our God, that also means that God has revealed Himself to us in a manner that we can understand. At the same time, if we ever presume to add anything to the Scriptural revelation or take away from it, we create an idol of our own making. In such cases, God is not their God; they have settled for a poor replacement — a reflection of themselves with rhinestones and tinsel, devoid of true gold and glory.

Claiming Yahweh as our God is an important statement indeed. It makes demands on our lives and presumes that God has revealed Himself to us. It is a statement that not everyone can make. It is a statement that not everyone who claims to be “Christian” can make. It is the realization that you are not your own and that you have been recruited into the service of the Great King. That is what you are affirming when you claim that Yahweh is your God.

What else does the psalmist reveal? He reveals that the judgments of God go throughout the earth. There is a simple truth in this line as well. There is nowhere you can go in all of creation that will cause you to escape the presence of God. More importantly, in this context, there is nowhere you can go to escape the Law of God. You may find yourself amongst a non-Christian people who permit many immoral practices, but that does not mean you are free to join in. Nor does that mean that those people will escape eternal wrath. The adage, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” is not an acceptable philosophy for the believer when it comes to the Law of God. If God is truly our God, we will live like it in every sector of our lives.