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 61
6 Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!
7 May he be enthroned forever before God; appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!
When we last read David’s prayer, he had turned a corner, due to his looking back to the faithfulness of God and the promise he had received of the kingdom.
Our first verse, verse 6, when I initially considered it, made me think of David himself, how he was stating that the Lord would prolong the king’s life in the midst of this emergency. God would prolong the kings life, and then he begins to state the impossible.
The kings life would extend to many generations? He already was an aged man, and he has the audacity to state the Lord would extend his life for “many generations”? Never mind that – consider the next statement, that the king shall abide before God forever!
OK, so we have a shift in the topic from the immediate rescue of David by prolonging his life, to one of two topics
First topic that came to my mind is that he is referring to his eternal state, that he would abide before God forever, no matter his time of death on this old earth.
And yet the subject seems to change in verse 7, where David looks to another king, whom he asks God to prepare mercy and truth to preserve the King.
Can anyone imagine who that King is? When I see mercy and truth, I automatically think of John’s gospel, where he speaks of grace (mercy) and truth in the person of Jesus
John 1:17b … grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Does it not make sense that David, in his time with God, at a dark, deeply difficult time, would be caught up with the promised King who would reign forever.
It is only through the reign of Jesus that any of us can expect to have our lives extended through many generations, even forever.
Jesus has been enthroned forever, according to David’s prayer. David was restored to his throne, as the promise of God was maintained for David.
Not only was David restored to the throne for his final days, but in the big picture, his life has been extended through the power of the resurrected King, who was full of mercy and truth.
May His name be honored in our lives this day!
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