Nov 10 Ezekiel 19, Ezekiel 20:1-44 Hebrews 10:1-18 Psalm 122:1-9
Ps 122:1
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
The Psalmist was glad – he rejoiced when those he was with said – let’s go and worship in the house of The Lord. It’s not just that he was glad that he was going to the house of the Lord, although that’s a big part of it – but he’s glad that his companions and friends have suggested it. It’s good to encourage each other to worship – God’s people encouraging each other to worship – that’s a wonderful thing!
The Psalmist was glad to go to the tabernacle – a place of praise and worship – but a place of the veiled presence of God.
How much more glad should we be then, to get together as the body of Christ and to worship before the unveiled, open presence of God!
Are you glad to go to the house of The Lord?
Ps 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
Jerusalem has had a very turbulent history. It also has a very turbulent present. It’s a beautiful place (if you’ve never been – it’s really worth a visit) but it has been destroyed time and again. It has been fought over for many years and is always a place of great controversy.
It’s interesting, but if you look at sermons preached before the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem – they are all about “Pray for the peace of your church” or “pray for the peace of your city or nation”… which is of course a replacement theology, but one you can understand at a time when the Jewish people were not in Jerusalem.
But today they are. And it’s specific, this passage. It’s about God’s city – eternally His. It’s telling us those who love it shall proser.
What can you do for this city that God loves? What can you do to change the fighting over it? What can you do over the difficult political position it is in.
Very little.
But you can pray. And in that, you can make a real difference. You may not be able to negotiate peace, but you can pray for it.
