He is Lord
The Bible says: “Consider
mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
word. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Great are thy tender mercies, O
LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline
from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. Consider how I love thy
precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Thy word is true from the beginning: and
every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.” Psalms 119:153-160 (KJV)
Charles Hodge, an influential American theologian and longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary in the mid-19th
century said: “The Greek word for lord is indeed used in scripture in the sense of master, and as a mere honorary title
as in the English “Sir.” But, on the other hand, it is the translation of Adonai, “supreme Lord,”
an incommunicable name of God, and the substitute for Jehovah, a name the Jews would not pronounce. It is in this sense that
Christ is ‘the Lord, the Lord of lords, the Lord God’; Lord in that sense in which God alone can be Lord; having
a dominion of which divine perfection is the only adequate or possible foundation. This is the reason why no one can call
him Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. It is a confession which implies the apprehension of the glory of God as it shines in Him.
It is an acknowledgment that He is God manifested in the flesh. Blessed are all who make this acknowledgment with sincerity;
for flesh and blood cannot reveal the truth therein confessed, but only the Father who is in heaven.
How sad it is that so many treat the name of the Lord with so little thought or respect. One day, they will come to
know there is no other name higher or more worthy of respect. Prayerfully, we hope it is before they draw their last breath
upon this earth!
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 119:1-88
