Psalm 89:11

Psalm 89:11 ¹¹ The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them. (NKJV)

Look at the two things that the Psalmist says belong to God. The heavens and the earth.

Spurgeon says in The Treasury of David that we are to look at God’s possession of heaven as the model of His possession of the earth. Let us think for a moment on what Heaven must be like but let’s leave the streets of gold, glorified bodies, halos and harps out for a second. What must it be like to be in the presence of the Almighty God?

First, His will is perfectly done. Imagine that truth for a second, God’s will perfectly executed. We talked a couple of weeks ago about how the angels watch the face of God for command to go and assist his people (Matthew 18:10). What a wonderful thought! His will is never questioned or ignored – it is simply done. If that is the model of how it is to be here on earth we are sorely lacking.

Second, in heaven His presence is not veiled. He is seen in His glory by all who are in His presence. No wonder the angels do not question Him. They are too enamored by His beauty and holiness and majesty to even consider questioning Him. What a marvelous thing to be in His presence! As the hymn says “when we’ve been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we’ve no less days to sing His praise than when we’ve first begun”. We will never tire of being in His presence.

Third, there is no decay in heaven. Sin isn’t there so none of its ravages are there either. No tears, no bloodshed, no inequity, no injustice, just God’s goodness being poured out to all who are there. Again – the thought is too much for us to imagine.

If God’s possession of heaven is to be the model of His possession of the earth than we have so much work to do. We can work to insure that His will is done here on earth as Jesus told us to pray in Matthew 5. We can “unveil” his presence in our lives, living each moment in the knowledge that God is with us every waking moment. We can repent of the sin in our own lives to minimize its effect and then we can spread God’s message of repentance to the rest of mankind.

The task sounds daunting, doesn’t it? Let’s not worry because the psalmist also tells us “You have founded them”. Creation not only belongs to God – it was made by Him. He has all the power that we need. We can rest in the knowledge that He will enable us to do anything that He asks us to do. What does Jesus say at the end of Matthew? “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” That should be enough to spur us on to do great things for Him.