Psalms
46:1-47:9- ‘Be still, and know that I am God...Shout to God with loud songs of joy’(10; 47:2). In our worship, there is to be both quiet trust and loud praise. We read the great words: ‘God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble’(46:1). God’s Word brings peace - ‘in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength’. We must not keep God’s blessing to ourselves. We must share it with joy - ‘Sing to the Lord...let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise in the coastlands’(Isaiah 30:15; 42:10-12). The Lord is to be ‘exalted among the nations’. He is not only ‘our King’. He is ‘the King of all the earth’(10; 47:6-7). ‘Father (Jesus/Spirit), we love You. We worship and adore You. Glorify Your Name in all the earth’(Mission Praise, 142).
46:1-47:9- ‘Be still, and know that I am God...Shout to God with loud songs of joy’(10; 47:2). In our worship, there is to be both quiet trust and loud praise. We read the great words: ‘God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble’(46:1). God’s Word brings peace - ‘in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength’. We must not keep God’s blessing to ourselves. We must share it with joy - ‘Sing to the Lord...let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise in the coastlands’(Isaiah 30:15; 42:10-12). The Lord is to be ‘exalted among the nations’. He is not only ‘our King’. He is ‘the King of all the earth’(10; 47:6-7). ‘Father (Jesus/Spirit), we love You. We worship and adore You. Glorify Your Name in all the earth’(Mission Praise, 142).
48:1-14- ‘Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised’(1). We worship God in the place of worship - ‘Within Your Temple,
O God, we meditate on Your unfailing love’. Our worship must not end
there. We are to play our part in seeing that the praise of the Lord
‘reaches to the ends of the earth’. We are to ‘be glad’ in the
Lord. We are to ‘rejoice’ in Him (9-11). We must not keep this joy to
ourselves. The Lord is ‘the joy of all the earth’. We must share His
joy. We are to ‘tell the next generation’. How will they know if we do
not tell them? Many are slow to come and worship the Lord. We must not
be slow to witness for Him. Let’s remember God’s promise - ‘My
Word...will not return to Me empty, but will...achieve the purpose for
which I sent it’- and let’s say - ‘Here am I. Send me!’(Isaiah 55:11;
6:8).
49:1-20-
How can I be saved? How does God answer our most important question,
the question of salvation? He speaks to us about (a) our need of
salvation; (b) His provision of salvation; (c) receiving salvation. (a) Our need of salvation: We
cannot save ourselves. ‘No man can ransom himself, or give to God the
price of his life. The price to be paid for his soul is too
costly’(7-8). (b) His provision of salvation: Jesus Christ came
to earth ‘to give His life as a ransom for many’. We are ‘redeemed with
the precious blood of Christ’(Mark 10:45; 1 Peter 1:18-19). (c) Receiving salvation:
Christ died to ‘save us from the power of hell’ and ‘take us to
Himself’. We receive salvation through faith in Him: ‘Believe in the
Lord Jesus and you will be saved’. ‘He who believes in the Son has
eternal life’(15; Acts 16:31; John 3:36).
50:1-23-
‘Our God comes, He does not keep silence’(3). God does not keep His
distance. He comes near to us. He does not keep His silence. He speaks
to us - ‘God the Lord speaks’(1). How does God come near to us? How does
He speak to us? He comes near to us in Jesus Christ. He speaks to us
through Jesus Christ. In John 1:1, we have this tremendous description
of Jesus Christ: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God’. Jesus Christ is the Word. God is speaking to
us through Jesus Christ. How does God speak to us through Jesus Christ?
He speaks to us by drawing near to us - ‘the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us’. Jesus Christ is God’s Word. He is God, speaking to us.
He is God, coming near to us. He is God, ‘full of grace and truth’(John
1:14).
51:1-19-
‘Create in me a clean heart, O God... Cast me not away from Thy
presence... Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation’(10-12). These words
come to us from the ancient past. They were first spoken many centuries
ago. They can be the words which change your future. You can make them
your words. David made a new beginning with God. You can make a new
beginning with God. You have sinned. You need to be forgiven. Come to
Christ. He says, ‘I will never turn away anyone who comes to Me’(John
6:37). You need to be ‘born again’. Receive Christ as your Saviour and
be ‘born again’- ‘born of God’(John 3:3,7; 1:12). You feel so weak,
unable to be the person God wants you to be. Let ‘the joy of the Lord be
your strength’(Nehemiah 8:10). Let His love reach you. Let His power
make you a new person.
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