Psalm 21 reads as follows from the New King James version of the Bible:
The king shall have joy in Your strength, O LORD;
And in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 You have given him his heart's desire,
And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
3 For You meet him with the blessings of goodness;
You set a crown of pure gold upon his head.
4 He asked life from You, and You gave it to him'”
Length of days forever and ever.
Psalm 21 reads as follows from the New King James version of the Bible:
1 O LORD, the king rejoices in your strength.
How great is his joy in the victories you give!
2 You have granted him the desire of his heart
and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Selah
3 You welcomed him with rich blessings
and placed a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked you for life, and you gave it to him'”
length of days, for ever and ever.
5 Through the victories you gave, his glory is great;
you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.
6 Surely you have granted him eternal blessings
and made him glad with the joy of your presence.
7 For the king trusts in the LORD;
through the unfailing love of the Most High
he will not be shaken.
8 Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies;
your right hand will seize your foes.
9 At the time of your appearing
you will make them like a fiery furnace.
In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up,
and his fire will consume them.
10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
their posterity from mankind.
11 Though they plot evil against you
and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed;
12 for you will make them turn their backs
when you aim at them with drawn bow.
13 Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength;
we will sing and praise your might.
This psalm is considered a companion to psalm 21 where the psalmist is a little further along and is now basking in the sunshine of the Lord's glorious presence and rich blessings.
Verse 3 in the New Oxford Annotated Bible gives a translation of rich blessings rather than blessings of goodness.
A major them is that this blessings, while present will be ongoing and extend into eternity and in a sense they go forward into eternity but also extend backwards from the eternal to the present so in actuality the Psalmist is seeing the presence of the eternal in the at hand blessings in the midst of his lifetime.
and made him glad with the joy of your presence.
The point of pondering using this psalm is the meeting with the Lord meeting with the Lord within blessings of goodness rich blessings, or abundant blessing as mentioned in verse 3.
The personal meeting with the Lord is thematic to the psalms as a whole.
With the idea of meeting, we can begin to obtain a view of the balance of the relationship.
This psalm strongly alludes to the personal encounter for better or worse.
Try to image this, visualize this, ponder this meeting.
Don't be attached to attached to what the rich and good blessings will be, but they will characterize as rich and good.
There would be a timeless element. You might be mired in your current circumstances, but the Lord is the lover of your soul, and this meeting could be imagined in another century another era another location, another set of circumstances that are quite different than what you are presently facing.
Separate from all this and ponder the Lord is meeting you. The joyful presence of the Lord vastly supersedes your present circumstances and may override them.
There are rich blessings and blessings of goodness within this meeting and there can be a detachment as to what you think they could be but an understanding towards what they actually are and what they signify in joyful presence of the Lord.
There might be an incorrect view and what would be a better view ad what would be a better view of what actually is.
View what the balance of the relationship is. When you adjust the rear view mirror of a car, you are trying to get the most accurate view of what you are passing by. Ask the Lord to give a mirror to this meeting with you so that you can see its truth and meaning in greater depth.
The view is not as much to the attached blessings as to the meeting itself.
The later verses of this psalm talk about the Lord beholding the face of the evildoer.
The face of evil is not hidden in the crowd either. The presence of the Lord is everywhere and to everyone, and to the face of the one.
The side of the riverbanks that the psalmist David is on is a personal journey and meeting with the Lord that carries the richest blessing extending all the way into eternity and this is the model of hope presented in this psalm.
Sumber : Redbud
Comments
Post a Comment