Year 5, Day 205: Psalm 60-61

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Discipleship Focus: Invitation

• Invitation: God is always inviting us into relationship with Him. He desires that we know Him and that we know His desire for us.

Both of these psalms are written by the psalmist from the perspective of anticipation of being with God.  In Psalm 60 we hear the psalmist speaking from the perspective of feeling abandoned by God.  He feels as though they are failing in battle because God is not near to them.  However, the psalmist reminds us that when we are invited to the side of the Lord we have His banner to run to for protection.  It is at the Lord’s invitation that we find salvation.  It is the Lord’s invitation that brings us into His fortified city.  It is the Lord’s invitation that allows us to fight valiantly for Him as He provides the means to tread down our foes.

Psalm 61 is far more straightforward with the invitation.  It is the Lord who leads us to the rock that is higher than I.  It is the Lord who invites us to dwell in His tent forever.  It is at His invitation that we realize that He has indeed heard our cries and answered them.

Invitation is always a great place to return in our journey of faith.  It is at the invitation of the Lord that we have anything good.  It is at the invitation of the Lord that we can be saved.  It is at the invitation of the Lord that we can have the promise of eternal life.  It all begins with Him, and without His invitation we find ourselves mired in the ways of this world as the psalmist does in Psalm 60.

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