#DailyDevotion It Is Good To Sing Of The LORD’s Kindness and Mercy
Psalm 92 It is good to thank the LORD and sing about Your name, O Most High, 2and talk in the morning about Your kindness in and at night about Your faithfulness 3with a ten-stringed instrument, a lute, and music on a lyre.
The inscription for this Psalm is, “to sing on the Sabbath.” With the opening lines it was mostly used on the morning of the Sabbath. Would that all Christians would greet the day, every day with a song like this. Think of how it would set our mind for the day. But especially a day where we don’t have to work and a day where we receive the gifts of God namely word and sacrament.
He gives thanks to the LORD for this day. Why would not give thanks for a day of rest. This is so unlike the LORD’s accusations to Judah’s people later on when they complained about having to wait for the Sabbath to be over so they could conduct business and make money. Surely our faith and love of God has grown cold when we complain about having a day of rest to worship the LORD and receive His benefits and want to work and do business instead.
He wants to sing about the LORD’s name. We have a few wonderful songs about the name of Jesus. It is a wonderful name that proclaims our salvation. His name gives us clean conscience and boldness to come before God the Father. We in Christ have entered an eternal Sabbath. How much more can and should we in the morning sing of the LORD’s kindness to us at the beginning of the day and at night sing of His faithfulness which brings us to the close of the day. It is living in the name of the LORD when we do so.
4You made me glad, O LORD, by what You did; I will shout about what Your hands accomplished. 5How great are Your works, O LORD, and very deep Your thoughts! 6A dull person can’t understand it, and a fool can’t grasp it. 7The wicked come up like grass, and all who do wrong blossom like flowers only to be killed off forever.
How cannot the cross of Christ Jesus make us glad? The hand of the LORD accomplished this. Through it Satan’s work is undone. Our sins are forgiven us. Reconciliation with the Father had been made. We are made participants in the divine life. Who are these dull people and fools who can’t understand it or grasp it? Those who think they know more than God. God’s thoughts are deep but they are very clever. They are too clever for their own good. Because they do not have God’s life in them they cannot even begin to understand the mercies of God. They think they are pretty good and their morality is greater than the LORD’s. These wicked come up like grass and blossom like flowers only to be killed off forever.
8But You, O LORD, are most high forever. 9Look at your enemies, O LORD; see how Your enemies perish, and all who do wrong are scattered.
The LORD truly is above it all. When we try to understand Him apart from His word it is like ants trying to comprehend men and their ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways higher than our ways. The LORD’s enemies, those for whom He had humbled Himself to become man and effect salvation for them, they will perish and they will be scattered. They think they are smarter than the LORD. They will be shown for what and who they really are at the judgment. We who humble ourselves to His word will find a wisdom and knowledge greater than that of the smartest and cleverest of men. Our wisdom and knowledge is not our own but the LORD Jesus Christ’s, the Wisdom and Knowledge of God. When we want to know God, all we have to do is look at Jesus.
Heavenly Father, grant that we may celebrate the eternal Sabbath in Your Son Jesus Christ, reveling in Your mercy, love and kindness to us in Jesus and so we may praise all His works to the glory of Your Name. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.