I Love You, LORD

Meditations on the Psalms 

July 27, 2022

I Love You, LORD

I love you, LORD; you are my strength.

Psalm 18:1

 Psalm 18, Part One:

As a Christian, I believe one day God’s Kingdom will be established on earth. This is why I join my voice with like-minded Christians and pray, “Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.” I long for the day when the rule of the evil one who has devastated God’s creation will be put to an end, and when God’s love, mercy and justice will flow like rivers of living water. The foundation for my belief is rooted throughout the Bible, including Psalm 18.

The New Testament writers believed Psalm 18 was fulfilled in God’s vindication of Jesus. God’s Kingdom was launched through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. In these early stages, the Kingdom is being established in the lives of the followers of Jesus. These believers are working to prepare earth to receive her King, as we live out our faith, day by day. In God’s time (kairos), our King will come and complete the restoration of Eden.

The foundation for Israel’s belief in God’s Kingdom was established upon their experience of God’s grace. Psalm 18, David’s magnificent Psalm of Praise, is also found in 2 Samuel 22. David’s praise was born of his experience with God’s saving grace.

How have you experienced God’s grace? Has there been a time in your life when you felt as though adverse circumstances might overwhelm you? How did God bring you safely through the storm? How would you explain your experience to another person? Your experience is your own psalm of praise.

My Takeaway: The morning I am writing this, I had my annual check-up with my doctor, during which he reviewed some of the scarier moments in my stay in the Hospital ICU last week. Thinking of those, I am singing my praise to God, and King David gave me the opening lines of my psalm of praise,

“I love you, LORD, my strength.

 The Lord is my solid rock,

    my fortress, my rescuer.

My God is my rock—

I take refuge in him!—

        he’s my shield,

        my salvation’s strength,

        my place of safety.

 Because he is praiseworthy,

    I cried out to the LORD,

    and I was saved from my enemies.”

Psalm 18:2-3

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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