Psalm 48 is a song of
praise and deliverance. However, it is the final verse that has captured my
attention. "For this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide
even to the end"(PS 48:14).
I am reminded of the phrase,
it’s not how you start but how you finish. In this verse, the sons of Korah
proclaim that they are going to end with God leading them. There are no ifs, ands,
or buts, only determination to finish with God being the leader.
Yes, things happen, and
people fail but if you aren’t determined from the beginning (or where you are
now), that you are going to follow God the odds are already against you.
Teacher after teacher
says that if we are not determined, if we don’t have the grit, then we will
fail.
For me I determine, God
is my God forever and he will be my guide to the very end.
Now it’s your turn.
Psa 48:1-14
(1) A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
(2) Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
(3) God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
(4) For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
(5) They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
(6) Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
(7) Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
(8) As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
(9) We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
(10) According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
(11) Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
(12) Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
(13) Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
(14) For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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