Year 5, Day 226: Psalms 92-93

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Discipleship Focus: Authority

• Authority: Our calling.  This comes from God as king.  Because He calls us as His representatives, He gives us authority to go and do His will.

Psalm 92 and Psalm 93 are great authority psalms, but they aren’t authority with respect to the typical discipleship frame of reference.  Often when we talk about authority we are speaking of our authority that we receive from God because He is the king.  Each of these psalms today gives us a perspective on God’s overall authority.  These psalms give us a perspective of God as King and His ultimate power.

In Psalm 92, we get an overview of the greatness of God.  He is the one who is exalted because we cannot ever truly fathom His depth.  Just when we think that we are getting to where we might find an answer, we find that the answer we seek merely opens up questions to further depth!  Yes, we do get answers.  But the answers are never the end of the road.  The answers simply open our eyes to how many more questions that there are to ask!

Furthermore, in Psalm 92 we get another glimpse of the tension between the success of the unrighteous and the concern of the righteous.  The psalmist does a great job in making sure that our perspective is correct.  The unrighteous may prosper here on this earth for a time.  But their time of prosperity is often short-lived.  We often see people rise and then quickly fall.  But even in those instances where we see a person rise and never fall in this world, we know that eternity is completely different.  Just because a person is prosperous here in this life doesn’t mean that they will have it made in the life to come!  Only those who are in God – the righteous – will know eternal prosperity.  God truly has the final and ultimate say.

When we turn to Psalm 93, we find that it is a clear psalm about lifting up God and His greatness.  God’s throne is forever.  God’s throne shall never be moved.  God’s Word is trustworthy.  God’s holiness is befitting only for God and the things that belong to Him.  God has the ultimately authority in this life because He is the only one worthy enough to have such power.  He is the only one who is that righteous and trustworthy.  That is why the authority is His.

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