Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
Psalm 136:5

The truth is conjunctive, both/and. We find it in Scripture and summarized in the
first two statements of the Apostle’s Creed:
1.
I
believe in God, Almighty, creator of heaven and earth,
2.
And in
Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
The psalmist captures the both/and again in Psalm 8:1,3,4 – “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name
in all the earth . . . When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are
mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?

The psalmist in the lead psalm above (136:5) who speaks of the
conjunctive of God’s transcendence and immanence, his remoteness and intimacy,
strikes the only chord of our hearts that is possible calling us to “GIVE
THANKS!”
O Lord, our thanksgiving spills over in to praise. You are both/and . . .
We give thanks to you. In all your unimaginable power and might,
you faithfully love us with an
everlasting love! Amen
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