#DailyDevotion Beautiful Savior
#DailyDevotion Beautiful Savior Psalm 45 A fine theme stirs in my heart. I will recite what I'm writing about the King. My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. 2You are the most beautiful of men; Your lips pour out grace; so God has blessed You forever. So this psalm is about Jesus, our LORD and King, and His Bride, the Church. The psalmist thinking about the King is stirred up in heart as he writes this psalm. The thoughts of his heart are overflowing, bubbling up so to say. His tongue becomes a skillful writer. Perhaps he is speaking these things and someone else is writing it down. It's kind of funny that he is writing down what he is experiencing and what the quality of its content is before he even writes down the content so we know what he is talking about. I guess it puts us in his place to experience the emotion he is feeling at the time. Now he proceeds to address the king and what he is feeling or thinking about Him. He is the most beautiful of men. This would be opposed to His appearance before His resurrection where Jesus' appearance would have us turn our faces. In His resurrected glory, Jesus is the most beautiful of men. He is the very image and likeness of God. This then is a sign of our future glory, we who are united with Him in baptism. His lips pour out grace, as John writes in chapter one of his Gospel, “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Jesus speaks to us the Father's good will and favor. He calls us to repentance and faith in Him with which He bestows upon us eternal life. He invites us to turn from the darkness and join in His light and life. God the Father has blessed Jesus our King forever. Jesus is seated at the Father's right hand. He gives to Jesus all His authority, power, glory and might when Jesus ascends to His right hand. He blesses Jesus with a people, an inheritance of His own, of all the people He has chosen for Jesus before the foundation of the world. 3Strap Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty One; march on in Your splendor; 4with Your majesty drive to victory. Ride in the cause of truth, and be concerned with justice. And may Your right hand teach awesome things. The psalmist calls upon Jesus to return in glory, power, might and splendor. So His sword is strapped to His thigh, ready for battle. Jesus in Revelation 19 comes down with all His angelic armies in the cause of truth and justice. He calls the nations who oppose Him to put up their dukes and fight. The awesome things His right hand teaches is who is King. Jesus is King. Those who oppose His kingship shall feel the brunt of the sword of truth which puts them to death and judges them guilty of all their sins. They did not want His grace and truth. They despised His calls for repentance and the free gift of eternal life if they would put their trust in Him. They refused both the calls to repent and the invitation to eternal life through faith in Him. They then, at that time, will only receive the truth of their punishment since they despised the gift of grace and truth He offered them during the age of the Church. During the age of the Church, Jesus' right hand taught us the awesome things of forgiveness of sins, the gift of eternal life and what it costs the Father and Christ to give us such things. At His revelation to the world, it will be the judgment He warned us was coming upon all who rejected His rule in this life. Heavenly Father, we give you thanks and praise You have revealed You Son Jesus Christ to us as one who has grace and truth upon His lips offering us the free gift of life and salvation. May we ever praise Jesus as our King and Savior that we not experience His wrath upon those who reject Him. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Read the full article
