#DailyDevotion The Justice Of The LORD Is At His Right Hand
Psalm 48 8What we had heard of, we saw in the city of the LORD of armies, the city of our God. God makes it stand firm forever.
The psalmist had heard about what the city Jerusalem, the city of the LORD of armies was like. When they get there it is as they had heard. God indeed protects the city as it has His name on it. But that was conditional based on them being faithful to Him. Throughout the Old Testament and in Revelation particularly, we are given an image of the New Jerusalem. When Christ returns and we enter that city we shall see what we heard was true. God and the Lamb are its temple. Its city gates are never closed because the LORD of hosts protects it. All of her enemies have been cast into the lake of fire never to be seen again.
9We think of Your kindness, O God, while we’re in Your temple.
Hopefully this is true for us as well. That is, when we gather together with fellow Christian in the name of Jesus, we should be thinking of God’s kindness towards us. So often we get carried away by what is going on in the world. We don’t think about why we are here, what are we here for, what God is doing for us now. Our thoughts may stray to what we may not like about what or who we don’t like in the congregation we have been gathered together with. Let us resolve ourselves to think about God’s kindness when we gather together as Church and speak of that kindness to one another. Let us also be that kindness to one another.
10Like Your name, O God, Your praise goes to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of justice.
The praise of the name of Jesus and the Father has gone to the ends of all the earth and continues to do so to this day. The Father’s right hand is full of justice. How is that? Who is at the right hand of the Father? Jesus Christ of Nazareth is at the right hand of the Father. God’s justice which inflicts His wrath upon all evil doing was inflicted upon Jesus Christ of Nazareth on the cross. He has borne our griefs and shame. Our trespasses and iniquities were laid upon Him. He was stricken, smitten and afflicted for our sins. If we want to see God’s judgment take place as we look at the evil of the world, we need only look to Jesus Christ crucified. This same Jesus is coming again to judge the world. Those who obeyed the Gospel and believed in Him, their judgment was inflicted upon them in baptism. Those who rejected the Good News of Jesus shall get what their sins deserved.
11May Mount Zion be happy and Judah’s towns be glad, as they see Your just actions. 12Walk around Zion, go around her; count her towers, 13examine her ramparts; walk through her fortified palaces, so you can tell your descendants in the future: 14God is here, our eternal and everlasting God.: He will lead us forever.
We look forward to the day we see New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. It will make us glad to go around it. Jesus’ judgments will be our joy as we rejoice in His will and justice. When we gather together we are the New Jerusalem. We tell our descendants of the goodness of the LORD Jesus Christ, of what He has given us. God is with us when we gather in Jesus’ name. He is our Immanuel. He has sent His Holy Spirit to lead us today and forever as our trust is in Him.
Heavenly Father, mercifully grant us a good and willing spirit to remember your kindness and to speak of it to one another as we gather as Your temple and Your holy city in which we dwell. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.