Psalm 65

Man has his own sense of order, timing, and priorities. God calls us to worship.

Praise is due to God in His heavenly Zion. It shall be given to Him. His people, the payment of Christ's vow to the Father on the cross, will bring all their everything to Him forever.

The Lord has purchased us through the atoning blood of Jesus. He who chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world is now drawing us homeward in our affections. We will be well satisfied there.

The Lord has displayed His signs all over the earth. He is the God of our salvation, who hears us when we call to Him. Through His Son He has become not only the hope of Israel, but the hope of all the ends of the earth.

He who established the mountains and who stills the waters and the threatening tumult of his enemies makes Himself known. His Word has gone out with signs and wonders everywhere. What more is left now for this tired globe, tottering under the weight of sin and misery?

It is time for God to reign, not only in the heights of heaven, but with grace and peace over all the earth. Then will the river of God from on high renew all things.

What will it be like in that day?

Eye has not seen, nor has ear heard... Yet we have this testimony given in this psalm and so many other Old Testament passages of a land of blessing, a well-watered country, where the earth will give forth the fruitfulness for which it was made.

Think of it... The hills and valleys of a renewed creation will shout and sing for joy to the glory of the Lord!

Since this is our sure hope, it is our first joy (and obvious duty) not to fill our bodies with intoxicants, but to fill our hearts every day with the Holy Spirit, and to worship the Most High God through Jesus Christ our Lord.