My wife and I are reading through the Psalms in our evening reading and occasionally a nugget of the Psalms jumps out of the page. Don’t you love it when, after years of reading the “Old Book” passages become alive, reinforcing old teachings or simply warming your heart.
This is the book of Psalms, and it is rich.
I pray I can communicate a portion of the blessing we receive from this wonderful book.
Psalm 33
11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
13 The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
16 The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19 that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.
22 Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
We want to trust in anything other than God. Great armies, great strength, great weapons. All of these “idols” are ultimately red herring’s for our soul, when we abandon the living God.
He is looking for those that fear Him, and that hope in his steadfast love, that look to the mercy of God in all His actions and attitudes. He is kind, desiring to be our help and shield, our protector and defender.
Each morning as I arrive at work, I take a 15 minute walk in my parking garage, reviewing some memory verses (on the way up to the 7th floor) and praying for my family, friends and specific daily concerns on the way down from the 7th floor. All this to say, it was just a few days ago, that verse 21 of this chapter came up in my memory review and it was a blessing to consider.
Note “our heart is glad in Him because we trust in His holy name”
In our trust towards the only One who deserves our trust, we experience gladness, a rejoicing that is simply an over flow of the very life of God being worked out in our day to day lives. Our experience is to be full of joy, a rejoicing in the many benefits of our Holy Savior.
In the midst of good news, the rejoicing of our heart is to be relational, exuberant, obvious, open and full.
In the midst of bad news, the rejoicing of our heart is also relational, but with a subdued settled confidence that in the midst of the trial, God is still on the throne, that in the strength of God, our heart can not simply survive the storm, but if exercised by the Spirit, increase in hope, faith and love.
Trust in His holy Name, in the Name of Jesus and as you trust, experience the gladness of heart the psalmist sings of.
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