# 22 2020 Dev. Psalm 87:6. Freedom! Read all of Psalm 87. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ps. 87:6 “The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
“This one was born in Zion.”
This Psalm is one of the Zion Psalms, along with Ps 46,48.76,125,129,137, these Psalms foresee the nations being gathered along with the people of God. These Psalms are about refuge in God, about security, about justice, about trust, about salvation, and about freedom. Zion Psalms fore-shadow the passages in Hebrews we looked at last week (Heb.12:22,23) “But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.”
The followers of Jesus are the church of the first born, but God’s plan is bigger than we can imagine! Look at v. 4-6 ““I will record Rahab[b] and Babylon among those who acknowledge me—Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush—and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’ Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.6 The Lord will write in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Followers of Jesus are born in Zion, we include every tribe, every nation all believers from the past, today, and into the future. Praise be to God!
Right now churches are shut, while bars, tattoo parlors and abortion clinics are wide open. What is wrong with that picture? That is the result of non believers making decisions for us and a disregard of God’s holy mountain. They want to force change on our country by subverting our Christian values, and by restricting our freedoms. As followers of Jesus we stand firm on the city of God, we will reach the city, we will have new life and we will live forever and a crazed mayor or governor is not able to take that away. Praise God!
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