God's Desire to Rescue Us - Ruminating in the Word of God

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 121:7-8,

"The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore."

I am entirely convinced that one of the main purposes of the
collection in the book of Psalms is to convey to us the Lord desires
us to look to him in our difficulty.

The chief difficulty all people face is that we are sinful and live
our lives in an estrangement from God. Even further, Paul describes
the nature of mankind's relationship with God as that of enemies,
Romans 5:10. We come into this world with a huge predicament: we face
certain eternal death following this life.

But... that is not the whole story. God has both the ability and the
desire to come to our help in this difficulty. He sent his Son, Jesus
Christ, to pay the penalty for our sins and credits our account with
him with this payment when we embrace him in faith. God is building
his kingdom of us for an eternity and desires all who will embrace him
in faith, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some
understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting
anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9.

Consequently, God wants us to know that he is capable and desires to
help us in our predicament. As we read the book of Psalms we learn
that not only is God to be feared, but that he also wants us to turn
to him, to place our trust in him, to look to him for help. This
beautiful little psalm reinforces the theme that God will help us in
our need and thus prepares us for his gospel message.

Yes, we are going to have to pay taxes, we will all get sick, we will
all die. That is not the point of the psalm. The point of the psalm is
that as we face the difficulties we are in, he will be there for us.
Even in death.

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
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