Charles (Chuck) Kensinger

We have another positive prayer in Psalm 131. If we have our hope in Jehovah, we will be as content as a child with its mother. Are you proud and caught up in the cares of this world? Get back to God as King David did. That is where we need to rest.

When King David praises Jehovah before other “gods” in Psalm 138, he acknowledges that He is the only true God. Bowing down toward the Temple means praying to the home of Yahweh. In our culture, we know that He is omnipresent, or everywhere at once.

The Israelite King urges every monarch to honor Jehovah. He opposes the proud but does not look down on the lowliest of us. We should follow His example. “Your love endures forever” ends the song. A fabulous thought.

Who knows you better than God? Psalm 139 tells of all the things that Jehovah knows about you. We cannot flee from the creator of the universe. There is no place to run to and hide. Yahweh knows all of us and we are always watched by him.

God did not only create the world but each person on it. He knows you and He cares. He knows when we would be born and die and everything in between. David wants to know why evil people are not held accountable. While Jehovah knows everything, David like us is limited in his decision-making ability. The Son of God encourages us to forgive those who sin against us. His justification is that we all have erred. He who is without sin should throw the first stone.

No one living is righteous compared to Jehovah according to David in Psalm 143. His opponents are causing him to be depressed over the continued situation. Yahweh has protected the King in the past. He has no reason to believe this will stop.

We all need reassurance, even from Jehovah. His love needs to be felt by each of us. We must do the will of the Lord. The reason for God to help David is because he is a servant of God.

God is described as his rock, fortress, deliverer, and refuge in Psalm 144. He trains us to do the work that He has for us. Human beings are nothing when looked at in the light of this awesome being.

Like the King of Israel, we what Jehovah to come to us. We cannot go to Him. We do not know how to find Him. This was taken care of over two thousand years ago when Jesus can to our planet and became one of us.

The Shepherd King says he will sing a new song to Yahweh and he does. All these psalms we have looked at were new a long time ago. That was David’s way to praise the Lord. He wrote songs, played the ten-string lyre, and sang. I write. What do you do to praise God?

Often in his day, David heard of other gods. Eventually, some king will try to get others to worship him as a god. In Psalm 145 this king refers to God as King. His praise for Jehovah is endless. Often, we fall away from Him because we stop communicating with Him and focus on our selves or this world.

The Kingdom of God is referred to here. God proves Himself to a man if we will give the credit where it is due. When Jesus came, he also was worthy of praise for the ideas about the Heavenly Kingdom that He showed to us. He spoke often about what the Kingdom was like.

David knew there was something better than his personal dynasty coming. He praises the coming reign of someone better than he. The rule of his offspring will surpass anything he could imagine. That is what Heaven will be, unimaginable.

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