WEDNESDAY Reflections
Psalm 21 is a psalm written in the time of David. When it refers to the king the singer speaks of David. Here David is rejoicing in all that God has given and will give is celebrated. The question for us is are we rejoicing in God when victories come or in ourselves. Do we get distracted (as David actually did) by what we have and forget to keep celebrating all God is doing?
Psalms 21 is also a picture of the final
king, Jesus. He will rejoice in God and His strength and the salvation God has
brought. This psalm is one that could easily be sung when Jesus returns to take
His throne.
1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
7 For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
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