Year 5, Day 274: Psalm 131-132

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Discipleship Focus: Provision

• Provision: God gives us what we truly need.  God knows our needs better than we can know them.  We learn to trust God to provide for us.

Trust.  Trust is the issue into which we are drawn by these psalms.  Yet trust is in itself most firmly rooted into the concept of provision.

For example, take the idea behind Psalm 131.  Psalm 131 is an honest psalm about a humble man who is not going to waste energy overextending himself into areas to which God has not called him.  The psalmist trusts that God will provide with respect to the parts of his life that are beyond him.  He isn’t going occupy himself with things that are too great.  In a nutshell, the psalmist trusts in God’s grand provision.

Psalm 132 takes this idea of trust and provision and runs with it in a whole different way.  In Psalm 132 we have a ton of Messianic imagery.  In fact, every instance of Zion is itself a Messianic image.  Zion is the dwelling place of the messiah.  That is why Zion is a place of happiness, peace, joy, and security among a whole host of other things.

Yet, I believe it is Psalm 132:15 that gives me the greatest insight into the concept of provision.  The psalmist tells us that God will bless our provisions.  God will bless what He gives to us to live.  But even more specifically, God will satisfy the poor with bread.  Of course there is a physical and tangible understanding of this verse.  Yet on a deeper level, are any of us not poor?  Can any of us not be satisfied by the true bread from heaven that is God’s Messiah?  Who among us cannot be satisfied by Jesus Christ?  Has not God provided for us in the greatest way possible through His Messiah?

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