As your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments!
Walk about Zion, go around her,
number her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
that this is God, our God forever and ever.
He will guide us forever.
These verses invite and exhort us to praise (to the great and eternal God), remembrance (with our fellow members of the body of Christ), and testimony (towards those still outside of Christ). Those three terms - praise, remembrance, and testimony - as soon as I write them, strike me as a good summary of worship, in which we seek to magnify the name and excellence of God. Is my life characterized by these activities of worship? Am I living out the belief that my God will continue to guide me as I abide within the shelter of Christ's righteousness?
[As this "Psalm series" continues slowly, I still somehow cling to the notion that I will find you at the end of the countdown. Though it most likely is not valid in the least, the pipe-dream spurs me on...]
These verses invite and exhort us to praise (to the great and eternal God), remembrance (with our fellow members of the body of Christ), and testimony (towards those still outside of Christ). Those three terms - praise, remembrance, and testimony - as soon as I write them, strike me as a good summary of worship, in which we seek to magnify the name and excellence of God. Is my life characterized by these activities of worship? Am I living out the belief that my God will continue to guide me as I abide within the shelter of Christ's righteousness?
[As this "Psalm series" continues slowly, I still somehow cling to the notion that I will find you at the end of the countdown. Though it most likely is not valid in the least, the pipe-dream spurs me on...]
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