Back to the Psalms

If you are new to the blog, these are a few devotional thoughts focused on a slow reading of Scripture. By slow reading, I mean four chapters per week. The challenge is to read all four chapters on Monday and then go back and read one chapter per day for the next four days.

Our focus in the month of September is Psalms 21 to 36, and our focus this week is Psalm 21 to 24.

Psalm 21 is our focal reading on this Tuesday morning.

Compared to some of the other psalms, Psalm 21 is not as accessible or as easily understood as many others. David is writing this song form the perspective of his kingship. Few of us can truly enter into his experience. Few of us have literally had a crown of fine gold set upon our heads - along with all the blessings and responsibilities that come with it.

At the same time, the salvation and victory that God has accomplished for us (vs. 5) is greater and deeper and more profound than any victory that David might have had in mind. His was a victory of a few years. Ours is a victory for eternity. His was an earthly glory, ours is an eternal one. Our praise should be higher than his praise just as our salvation is greater than his salvation!

So this morning, I will give thanks for my salvation. God has won a great victory through the death and resurrection of Jesus. It is a victory worth singing about. It is a victory worth talking about. It is a victory that should fill our lives with a profound and unshakable joy and hope. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:38-39). In Christ, and in Christ's victory, we have been given an eternal and lasting glory!

May the light of that glory fill our faces today. May the depth of that joy brighten our lives. May the presence of love make us witnesses among our peers. May today be a day of blessing and good things (vs. 3)!