Seated On High
Psalm 113:5 ESV declares, “Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high.”
The enemy of our souls, the adversary of hope, always opposes the greatness of God. He schemes, twists, veils, and distorts the truth of who God is to make our world small. That’s the only way he can win against us; he has to downplay everything around us so that the power of darkness appears to be greater than the brightness of heaven.
When our God is small, our enemy is big.
One of the most dispairing places to be is in an ever-spiraling descent from truth into cloudiness and chaos of the mind. Have you ever been in such a place? The truth that once filled your mind falls through your fingers like sand. The power of the gospel that once captivated your heart wanes with every passing day as the power of oppression rises up ever so gradually.
This is the place to shout back, “Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high!”
Truth radiates like a shockwave in the spiritual realm. Like a burst of light and energy, it utterly exposes the futility of darkness, points out the strategy of the enemy, and dismantles the weapons aimed in our direction. This is why worship, especially corporate worship, is so incredibly powerful. Those rising voices of faith shatter the stronghold of the enemy. Worship fortifies the house of God and beats back the enemy.
Yet in the simple moments of prayer—the silent struggle of faith—a prayer like Psalm 113 is no less potent. I’m not talking about fighting demonic ground forces. I’m not suggesting that mere positive thoughts could overcome an entourage of oppression. I’m talking about something higher.
Our God is not one to fight in hand-to-hand combat. His word and his throne are higher. There is no one like him. There is no one higher. Did you catch that wave of worship? Simply writing this truth of God’s power stirs a tremor in my soul. Stand in awe of his majesty.
So, then, we ought to marvel at David’s words of hope in Psalm 18:6 ESV. He wrote, “In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.”
God, though seated high in majesty, has an ear toward us. He has established a line of contact with his people, and he listens to our cries for help.
When we pray in faith to the seated-high God, we don’t just get the power of truth. We get the Lord himself. Look to Moses, Joshua, Nehemiah, Gideon, or David, and you’ll remember that we know a God who fights for us.
Your prayers are not empty words. They aren’t meaningless attempts to coax a divine being to help out. They aren’t human strategies. They are messages to a living God who hears.
So pray with me today and set your eyes on the God like no other who is seated on high.
