‘I Was Glad When They Said To Me, “Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord.”’

Psalms 120:1-121:8
‘Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips’(120:2). God calls us to ‘believe the truth’, ‘love the truth’ and ‘follow the truth’. We are to be people who ‘do what is true’(2 Thessalonians 2:10-11; 3 John 3-4; John 3:21). How can we be such people? We must keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. He is ‘the Truth’(Hebrews 12:2; John 14:6). When we are tempted to turn away from the pathway of truth, we must remember this: ‘My help comes from the Lord’. We must remember God’s promise: ‘The Lord is your Keeper...The Lord will keep you from all evil’. God’s promise is not only for ‘this time’. It’s ‘for evermore’(121:2,5,7-8). This gives us glorious hope as we keep on looking to Christ,‘eagerly awaiting’ His Return ( Hebrews 9:28).

Psalms 122:1-124:8
‘I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the House of the Lord”’(122:2). Why do we go to the House of the Lord? We go ‘to give thanks to the Name of the Lord’(122:4). We seek His mercy for our past sins: ‘Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us!’(123:3). We seek His help for our future temptations: ‘Our help is in the Name of the Lord...’(124:8). As we receive mercy and help from the Lord, we worship Him: ‘Blessed be the Lord’(124:6). In our worship, we ‘look to the Lord our God’, drawing encouragement from His Word: ‘The Lord is on our side’- In Him we have the victory (123:2; 124:1-5). Rejoicing in God’s blessing, we pray for others: ‘May they prosper who love You’(122:6).
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