Reading
SAA Notes
It is distressing to realise that we can’t help ourselves. It is also instructive and a severe mercy from the Lord. It is at this point that we turn to Him and simply cling to His cross! Consider the request in verse 47 and the subsequent lifting of the heart in praise.
SJA Notes
* Immortal God, thank You for remembering us and showing favour to us through the once-for-all sacrifice of Yourself.
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.”
This is a psalm of history and exhortation both, to remember!
We see Moses pointing us to Jesus,
“Therefore he said he would destroy them – had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.”
This points us to Jesus – Who stood in the breach, turning away the full extent of God’s wrath from us (onto Himself)!
In Phineas we see another Christ-type,
“Then Phineas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.”
This is what God did in sending Himself, He intervened and the plague of sin and death was dealt with once for all.
We read of the good news for both Jew and Gentile alike, because now God’s people are all those in Christ,
“Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations,”
Praise God that we have been gathered in from among many nations. Praise Him that He stood in the gap, God in the Person of the Son, in the breach – That He intervened for us.
What a good reminder for us as we experience Easter time.
“And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ Praise the LORD!”
* God of steadfast love and abounding mercy,
Thank You for intervening for us, giving us what we do not deserve.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.