What Else Is There For Us To Say?

Meditations on the Psalms 

July 25, 2022

What Else Is There For Us To Say?

 

You will show me the way of life,

granting me the joy of your presence

and the pleasures of living with you forever.

Psalm 16:11

On the Day of Pentecost, Peter faced a daunting challenge. Together with the other one hundred-nineteen disciples, Peter had been in hiding since the crucifixion of Jesus. When the promised Holy Spirit came upon Peter and the others, it was kairos, God’s Time, to come out of hiding and proclaim the resurrection of Jesus to all people everywhere. Where do you start; how do you explain the resurrection? Peter began with Psalm 16.

Peter preached that David’s words in Psalm 16: 8-11 were fulfilled in Jesus’ resurrection (Acts 2:25-32). The Apostle Paul also relied on Psalm 16 when he preached to the people in Antioch (Acts 13:35-37).

While David’s psalm became an Old Testament prophecy of Jesus, the Messiah, it also held great comfort and power for David. We too, can feed upon the truth of God in David’s great psalm of hope. Like David, we too, through our faith in Christ, can experience God preserving us; we too can experience God’s goodness. We too can experience God’s presence before us giving us hope, and we too can rejoice in God’s victory over death as the Giver of life. Because Jesus fulfilled David’s affirmations in Psalm 16, the Apostle Paul proclaimed that we can rest in the sure hope of our eternal life in Jesus. (See Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 6:14 and 2 Corinthians 4:14)

My Takeaway: What else is there for us to say but,

“You will show me the way of life,

granting me the joy of your presence

and the pleasures of living with you forever.”

Psalm 16:11 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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