Year 5, Day 206: Psalm 62

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Discipleship Focus: Power

• Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king.  When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will.  We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.

Psalm 62 gives us a very interesting perspective.  At first take, it seems like a typical psalm of calling out to God.  We hear the psalmist sound as though he is under persecution.  He calls out and wonders just how long he will be subject to the persecution of other men.  This psalm seems to be set up for a typical look at protection and God’s deliverance.

However, look at where the psalmist is led by God.  In verse 11 the psalmist concludes that power belongs to God.  No matter how much we are subject to the persecution of the world, ultimate power belongs to God.  People may do their worst to us here in this world.  But nobody can touch God’s promise of eternal life.  Power genuinely belongs to Him in spite of how this temporal world appears.

However, the psalm doesn’t end like we would think.  In our world, ultimate power means domination and control.  But look at what happens when ultimate power rests in the hand of God.  Verse 12 tells us that love ultimately belongs to God.  Humanity often uses power for our own gain and our own benefit.  But with God, power is an implement of love.  Power is something God uses for our benefit, not His.  He desperately loves us, and it is out of that love that His true power comes.

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