THE MOST HIGH GOD

This title of God, v. 2, asserts His transcendence, being above all, and beyond all. “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish … thou, Lord, art most high for evermore”, Psa. 92. 7-8. He is the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, Isa. 57. 15.

His sovereign purposes are evidenced in this title: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel”, Deut. 32. 8. He is the Governor of history, for “the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men”, Dan. 4. 17, 25, 32; 5. 21.

When Isaiah saw Judah’s throne empty, he “saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up”, Isa. 6. 1. And Ezekiel’s vision was of a chariot-throne, awesomely high, and undeviatingly making its straight course, Ezek. 1. 9, 19-21. Yet upon that throne was the likeness of a Man, v. 26. We see Jesus who ascended on high, Psa. 68. 18. The eternal years of the right hand of the most High are his who was cut off in the midst of His years, 77. 10; 102. 24; Heb. 1. 10-12.

But though He is high, He has respect unto the lowly, Psa. 138. 6; Isa. 57. 15. The lowly amongst men know that man was made to look up beyond self to the most High. In saving them, God has broken their yoke of bondage and made them go upright, Lev. 26. 13. The woman, who was “bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself” for eighteen long years, at the Lord’s touch, was made straight, Luke 13. 11-13. She looked up to her Deliverer’s face. “I will cry unto God most high”, says the psalmist, Psa. 57. 2. Even the Lord, in dependent Manhood (yet knowing that He had come from God), “lifted up his eyes to heaven”, John 17. 1.

This gives a new dimension to the soul, for it now dwells in the secret place of the most High, Psa. 91. 1. Hence “I will set him on high”, says the most High, v. 14, “because he hath set his love upon me … because he hath known my name”. He is “the rock that is higher than I”, Psa. 61. 2.

Instead of the believer cleaving to the dust, Psa. 119. 25, his feet will be like hind’s feet; “he will make me to walk upon mine high places”, Hab. 3. 19.