Relief From the Greatest Threat - 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 124:8,

"Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth."

This beautiful psalm, 8 verses in total, might be considered a psalm
of relief. Looking back on the dangers God's people faced, they now
look back on their plight in the solace that only the Lord can
provide-- their deliverance from the threat as an accomplished thing.

They faced a threat from their enemies and because the Lord was their
"help", they have escaped, "We have escaped like a bird from the
fowler's snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped." Verse
7.

The great threat we all face in this life is what follows this life.
God's judgment of every individual for the sin in their lives looms on
the horizon for each of us. We have all sinned and the payment of that
sin is eternal death.

When we make the Lord our "help" by embracing him in faith, we find
our own deliverance from the biggest threat of all, eternal death.
Once we have done that, we can look back on the plight we had as
something that no longer threatens us. We find relief from God's
judgment through God's deliverance of us, all through faith in Jesus
Christ.

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives
life has set you free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1. Just
as David viewed the threat God's people faced as something they have
already been delivered from, so we can view our impending judgment as
something we have already been released from. We no longer face it.

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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