The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 56:13,
"You [God] have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life."
"You [God] have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life."
As I am sure you do, I attempt to envision what life will be like in the family of God, following our resurrection into eternal life.
What will it be like when I leave this body at my death? What will I think? What will I feel? Will I have any choices that might have to be made? Who will I first encounter and what will be the nature of that encounter?
What will I be experiencing and doing between my death and the day we will all receive our resurrected bodies? Paul talks a bit about our new resurrected bodies in 1 Corinthians 15. What will it be like to inhabit my new body? God has provided us all with purposefulness. What will that purpose be?
What will it be like as we stand together in joyous celebration of our Savior as his people for that first great convocation in his kingdom?
There could be hundreds of questions to think about and I do think about some of them.
In Psalm 56:13 David celebrates his deliverance, his salvation from his enemies. He does so using death as what he is delivered from and that God kept him from stumbling. The purpose of David not stumbling is so that he can "walk before God in the light of life."
Although I am quite certain there were temporal circumstances that David had his eye on as he penned these words, nevertheless, I think we will all celebrate God as a massive congregation together for God's deliverance of us using very similar words.
That day is coming and I can't help but think of it as I read David's words here.
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A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
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