March 20, Reading 2 – Psalm 89:19-52

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SAA Notes

Reflect on God’s wonderful promises to His Christ or Messiah David. More, not less is promised to the Christ – Jesus of Nazareth, David’s greater Son. As the psalm says, David’s sons forsook God’s Law, Solomon’s line petered out in the exile! Their faith hoped in God’s promises (v49). We know that God sent Jesus! God did remember!

SJA Notes

* Lord On High, only You can deliver our souls from the power of Sheol!

“My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.”

The psalmist Ethan spends time remembering God’s promises, bringing them back before the Lord, because,

“But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.”

The psalmist wrestles,

“How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever?”

God’s people at that time were bereft of security, they were plundered by their foes. They saw great evil done to them.

We see in the psalm a clear pattern for us today. How to bring our concerns to the Lord by remembering His promises to us (and so we need to know and understand His promises deeper each day).

This is not the only element though – God has promised good things to us, but also, God is THE LORD. Remember who He is. He is not fallen man. He is God. Remember Him.

“Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.”

* Father God,

Thank You for not leaving us to death, thank You for not handing us over to the just punishment for the sin we have done.

Thank You that instead You have rescued us into an eternal hope, an inheritance like no other!

Amen.

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