# 45 2018. Dev. Ps. 49:15. Depend on God! Read all of Ps 49. 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 49:15 “But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;
he will surely take me to himself. “
Ps. 49 begins a series of five wisdom Psalms. The Psalm is addressed to all people: “Hear this…all who live in this world” and he addresses every level of society: “both low and high, rich and poor alike”. The Psalm still speaks to us today; the goal today is to be well off, the American dream. This in itself is not sinful, what we have gained by hard honest work is a blessing from God. The problems start when we no longer give God the credit and we start to rely on ourselves and on our possessions. Death Is assured for all persons despite wealth or position. The issue here is life and death. The Psalmist makes it very clear: “No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—8 the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—“ No one is righteous, all who live on the earth are doomed, as the Psalmist puts it, all will descend stripped of wealth and glory. What then is our hope?
The Psalmists hope is in God: faith in Him and in His promises v.15 “God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.” This is our hope as well: it is a hope but also assurance of salvation because Jesus paid the ransom for us when we put our faith in Him. No amount of wealth, no amount of good works, no amount of church attendance will suffice without faith. Only faith in Jesus makes us righteous; real faith means that we love Him, follow Him and live out Jesus’ love in the world. Thank you Lord Jesus!
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