This is our God!

The song that we will sing to our God on the day of salvation as described in Isaiah 25.9. We (saints) have waited for God and on the day of salvation, we will wait no longer. God will finally and fully save his people and we will sing with every breath that we have of his salvation. We will be glad. We will rejoice. This is our God!

Exultation, Jubilance, Gladness

Three characteristics of those whose hope is in God from Ps 68.3.

Called to Suffer

Peter is quite clear in 1 Pet 2.21, we are called to suffer if we are true followers of Christ. No one wants to suffer. We are not Christian masochists. This is simply the reality of being who we are. The world hates us. We will suffer. As one commentator puts it:

Peter does not ask us to view suffering as inevitable in the world under the curse. He does not ask for stoic resignation. A life of suffering is our calling, not our fate. It is our calling just because we are God’s people. It is our calling because it was Christ’s calling. He calls his disciples to follow him.

Rejoicing in the Lord (and in Him Alone)

Thus David implies in Ps. 64.10. David calls for those who are God-followers to rejoice in the Lord. He does this because there is no higher nor more worthy being in which to rejoice. By rejoicing in God we are putting our satisfaction as high as it can possibly be. There is nothing inside or outside of the universe in which we can rejoice that will give us more satisfaction than in God alone. I'm happy to follow David's admonition here.

Living By Faith in God's Word

I was reading Psalm 56.4 this morning and struck by David's statement of trust in God and his word. When David was running from Saul, he fled to Gath and there pretended to be crazy so that he could both escape Saul, and not be killed by his mortal enemies, the Philistines. Note that David does not lay responsibility for his escape from the Philistines at the wiliness of his actions. He lays it at the feet of God. In God I trust, I shall not be afraid. The primary cause of his safety in Gath, was not dribbling on his beard like a madman, but God and his promises.