“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance”
Psalm 33:12 (NIV)
I chose this psalm as part of our suggested readings this week because verse 12 speaks of the blessing of being chosen by God. Notice that we are not chosen in singularity but as a nation and as a people. This psalm is a delight to read more than once in a sitting. Read it over and over again and you begin to sense a flow, and then you see the seamless movement from one theme to the other all the while holding to the main theme of God’s faithfulness expressed through His unfailing love.
The Psalm starts with encouragement to use our words to sing praises to the LORD accompanied by skilled instrumentalists. It then moves to the LORD’s Words, the right and true Words that come from a heart that loves righteousness and justice and practices unfailing love. Those right and true Words formed the heavens, the stars and all that is, came into being from the Words of His mouth. The One who spoke those Words is so large that the sea is small compared to Him, and He is so large and capable that His purposes and plans overcome all of combined resistance of all the nations and all the peoples of the earth. His purpose and His plans are to bless the nation and the people whom He chose. His eyes look down over all the earth and see us all, and only those who use their eyes to look to Him are delivered. So we wait, and we look to Him, and we rejoice and trust in His faithfulness, and in His unfailing love!
Truly the people He chose for His inheritance are a blessed people.
Do you see His unfailing love in your life today?
Are my eyes on Him this day? O Father fill my vision today, may I look to You and not to myself or anything other than You.
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