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I'm being blown away by a Psalm again.
It's about David. And it's about Israel. It's about priests and saints. (Us, people in David's generation, and people of all generations since David.) It's a promise of God kept. And it is the difference of how David thought that promise was going to happen and how that promise did happen/is really happening/is going to happen.
Consider what David thought this all meant compared to what we know it means today. And then maybe you see what I'm seeing. David thought God said that from David's loins, his children would keep Israel strong and for the Lord forever. Noper. What God was saying was from David's loins the Messiah would come many, many centuries later. And that Messiah was the hope of all who would trust in the Lord -- before, during, and after the Messiah came. And from HIM God would have himself priests and saints rejoicing eternally.
Maybe what we think we know God will do, isn't really what God will do. Ultimately, God will have himself a people who will love and serve him forever, but what are the chances all our plans of how God will do that are right? And we do have plans -- each one of us hopes God means to make our country his country. Each of us have opinions of how End Times works out. Each of us have plans on how our lives and our family's lives will play out. BUT is that our plans or God's plans?
Because even what David thought -- David, a man after God's own heart -- thought stuff about how God would work it out, wasn't how God worked it out. And yet it also was. David did give the ark a resting place, so it wasn't like David's plans failed either. All his life he aimed for God's plans, and David got some of them to happen. And, ultimately? That's perfect, because God IS working it out.
That's what I am blown away with with the Psalm for the last few days. (I can't help it. When something in scripture gets to me, I reread, until the "gets to me" part stops blowing me away, and I'm just enthusiastic instead. ) How are you blown away with it?
Psa 132:1 A Song of Ascents. Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured,
Psa 132:2 how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
Psa 132:3 "I will not enter my house or get into my bed,
Psa 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Psa 132:5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."
Psa 132:6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
Psa 132:7 "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!"
Psa 132:8 Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Psa 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.
Psa 132:10 For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Psa 132:11 The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
Psa 132:12 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne."
Psa 132:13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
Psa 132:14 "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Psa 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Psa 132:16 Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.
Psa 132:17 There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Psa 132:18 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine."
It's about David. And it's about Israel. It's about priests and saints. (Us, people in David's generation, and people of all generations since David.) It's a promise of God kept. And it is the difference of how David thought that promise was going to happen and how that promise did happen/is really happening/is going to happen.
Consider what David thought this all meant compared to what we know it means today. And then maybe you see what I'm seeing. David thought God said that from David's loins, his children would keep Israel strong and for the Lord forever. Noper. What God was saying was from David's loins the Messiah would come many, many centuries later. And that Messiah was the hope of all who would trust in the Lord -- before, during, and after the Messiah came. And from HIM God would have himself priests and saints rejoicing eternally.
Maybe what we think we know God will do, isn't really what God will do. Ultimately, God will have himself a people who will love and serve him forever, but what are the chances all our plans of how God will do that are right? And we do have plans -- each one of us hopes God means to make our country his country. Each of us have opinions of how End Times works out. Each of us have plans on how our lives and our family's lives will play out. BUT is that our plans or God's plans?
Because even what David thought -- David, a man after God's own heart -- thought stuff about how God would work it out, wasn't how God worked it out. And yet it also was. David did give the ark a resting place, so it wasn't like David's plans failed either. All his life he aimed for God's plans, and David got some of them to happen. And, ultimately? That's perfect, because God IS working it out.
That's what I am blown away with with the Psalm for the last few days. (I can't help it. When something in scripture gets to me, I reread, until the "gets to me" part stops blowing me away, and I'm just enthusiastic instead. ) How are you blown away with it?
Psa 132:1 A Song of Ascents. Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured,
Psa 132:2 how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
Psa 132:3 "I will not enter my house or get into my bed,
Psa 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Psa 132:5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."
Psa 132:6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
Psa 132:7 "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!"
Psa 132:8 Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Psa 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.
Psa 132:10 For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Psa 132:11 The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
Psa 132:12 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne."
Psa 132:13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
Psa 132:14 "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Psa 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Psa 132:16 Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.
Psa 132:17 There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Psa 132:18 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine."