# 43 2018. Dev. Ps. 48:8. God’s Presence! Read all of Ps 48. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Psalm 48:8 “As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord Almighty,
in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.”
Ps. 48 is the last of this series of 3 praise Psalms. We read these with the eyes of faith as in the time of use in temple worship. This is a liturgical praise song. The first three verses and the last three verses frame the main them, as we see it in the central verse, v. 8. “God makes her secure forever”.
Vs. 1-3 is praising God’s presence with His people using metaphoric language, but the meaning is real. As followers of Jesus we identify with God’s presence in this world.
Vs. 4-7 praises God for His great power, again using metaphorical language. We have experienced His great power in our salvation in Jesus!
V.8 is the center of this Psalm. It is all about God’s care for His people but it is also about the faithfulness of God’s people. “As we have heard, so we have seen”. We talk about the faith of our fathers and mothers, sometimes in a negative light, but because we have heard, we have believed, by the Spirit. Today, some things seem right but are against Gods laws. Do we have our eyes open to see the truth of what was believed before us?
Vs. 9-11 praises God for His love, His righteousness and for His justice. As followers of Jesus we experience His love, we practice His righteousness and we promote His justice.
Vs 12-14 is the end bracket and again praises God for His presence, reminds us of our responsibility to pass God’s love forward and praises God for His guidance even to the very end. Today, we also praise God; “For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end”. Amen!
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