Remind God of His Faithful Covenant (Psalm 132:10-12)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/29/2012 11:03:10 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                               Focus:  Psalm 132 PT-3

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                    Reference:  Psalm 132:10-12

 

            Message of the verses:  We continue to look at Psalm 132 in Today’s Spiritual Diary beginning with verse 10.

 

Remind God of His Faithful Covenant (vv. 10-12)

“10  For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

11 The LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: "Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. 12  "If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.’”

I think that it best to go back in the life of David in order to see how it was that God promised him to have the Messiah come through his line.  When one follows the “seed” as it goes through the Old Testament they will see that it actually begins in Genesis 3:15, and in that verse we see something unique, and that is the seed is called the “seed of the woman,” and that is the only time we see that in the Bible.  What is God speaking about in this verse?  “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.’”  The background to this verse is that sin had just entered into the human race by the disobedient of Adam and Eve, who were tempted by Satan.  God is speaking to Satan here telling him that He would put enmity between him and the woman, and also between her seed and Satan’s seed.  The reason that this is significant is that this is the first mention of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ for although the seed is passed on by men it will eventually be the seed of the woman that Jesus Christ will come through.  The verse goes on to speak of Satan bruising the heel of our Lord, but our Lord will bruise the head of Satan. 

Now as we follow the “seed” from there it goes to Adam and Eve’s son Seth and from there it will eventually go through Abraham, and then through Isaac, then through Jacob, then Judah, and David is a relative of the tribe of Judah and then in the seventh chapter of second Samuel we have the story of God telling David that the Messiah will come through him.

Back to the verses in this psalm where we see that the blessing is upon David, and for David’s sake that Messiah would come through his line.  Let’s look at Isaiah 55:3, “"Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.’”  It is God who is speaking through Isaiah the prophet and He is speaking at the end of this verse about the “faithful mercies shown to David,” which is what the psalmist is speaking of in Psalm 132.  It is in this psalm that the psalmist is reminding God about His covenant with David.  While listening to a sermon by John MacArthur from the Gospel of Mark the topic of prayer is the subject and MacArthur states that the first thing that we are to remember when praying for something is to remember the history of answered prayer, and that is what the psalmist is doing in this section when he reminds the Lord about His covenant with David.  God had not forgotten about His covenant with David, but it was good that the psalmist did not forget about it either.  I have a book in my library entitled “All the Promises of the Bible,” which is written by Dr. Herbert Lockyer.  The book is filled with the promises that are found in the Bible, promises that we as believers should know.  The book has close to 350 pages in it, so that must mean that there are a lot of promises in the Bible for us to learn about and at times claim.

Dr. Wiersbe writes “If David’s successors wanted the blessing of God, they needed to obey the law of God, and many of them did not.  Believers today are united with the Lord in a new covenant that Jesus made in His own blood (Matt. 26:26-30; Heb. 12:24), and He will never break that covenant.  The psalmist used David’s name when he prayed to the Lord, but we pray in the name of Jesus (John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-26).  The Father is faithful to His Son, and the Son is faithful to the covenant He made in His own blood.”  When we pray in the name of Jesus we have to realize that it has to be in the will of Jesus.  We remember the prayer that Jesus prayed in the garden, “Not my will be done, but Your will be done,” and we can get a better idea of this, for it is not just tacking on the name of Jesus at the end of our prayer, although that is fine if our prayers are prayed in and for His will.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life:  I desire to pray things in the name and in the will of Jesus Christ, and one of the ways that I can do better at this is to know the promises that He has given to us in His Word.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Contentment, and also to be transformed are two steps of faith for today.  To be transformed from the inside out and by the Word of God through the Spirit of God.

 

Memory verses for the week:  Psalm 130:1-2

 

            1 Out of the debts I cried to You, O LORD.  2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

 

10/29/2012 12:02:58 PM