This psalm celebrates the power and grandeur of the voice of the Lord.

True worship leads to self-sacrificial living. Idolatry (or false worship) leads to self-indulgence. True worship leads to heartfelt repentance. Idolatry (or false worship) leads to sinful revelry.

God creates, and God beholds. As divine image-bearers, we do the same. It's what we were made for. 

God is so completely other than us that there is nothing we can do to prepare to be in his presence. He has to make a way.

This God is not common, not casual, and not contaminated by sin.

Where God is concerned, the way something is built is as important as the thing being built for God.

Sin is death. Blood is life. Atonement (at-one-ment) is reconciliation with God. 

The cross becomes the place where God’s perfect justice meets God’s perfect mercy.

Though salvation happens in an instant, deliverance takes time. Salvation is by grace through faith and requires only our receiving it. Deliverance is by grace through faith and requires our involved participation to see it through. 

The Word of God always reveals the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God always points us toward the will of God.