Trusting in What Is Truly Lasting: Psalm 127
It is possible to build in vain even if we live in a grand house. When these things become the focus of our lives, there is a vanity, or emptiness, that seeps into our lives.
It is possible to build in vain even if we live in a grand house. When these things become the focus of our lives, there is a vanity, or emptiness, that seeps into our lives.
The psalmist looked up at the majestic mountains as a picture of God’s surrounding presence, and longed for that peace. In Christ, that eternal peace has broken in.
We need to tell the story often, we need to rehearse it for each other, and we need to sing it with the psalmist—the Lord is on our side!
In time, God will heal the sick and raise the dead. But, in the meantime, we learn the gift of waiting.
God’s presence is mediated among us when we gather with other believers as the church.
The Spirit-filled life does not mean that we have eradicated all sin from our lives. What it does mean is that we no longer have a divided heart.
To conquer the divided heart is one of the greatest victories in the Bible.
The first commandment is the foundation for our keeping of the whole of the Ten Commandments. It is the most basic reorientation from a life directed toward ourselves to a life directed toward God.
In our own lives, may we learn to embrace lament, not despair, because lament is the song of hope.
God sends his power to deliver us, but he also sends us the sure word of his faithfulness, even as we languish in the midst of difficult times, still awaiting his deliverance.
As Christians, we should always see ourselves as a part of this grand, redemptive story that stretches across time, around the globe, and even spans heaven and earth!
Moses spoke the Word of God through which we saw our need of grace; Jesus, greatest Prophet, in You we behold God face to face.