Seize the Moment – Day 1150
Pray for Your Community!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, May 11.
Are you praying for the community in which you live? Are you asking God to use you to shine His light and share His love to your community?
Psalm 48 is the Song of Zion. Zion is the temple mount in Jerusalem and is used synonymously with Jerusalem itself. The first three verses demonstrate how intertwined Jerusalem was with the Jewish people’s worship of God and their thankfulness for His presence in their city, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion in the far north, the city of the great King. God, in her palaces, has made Himself known as a stronghold.”
James Montgomery Boice explained how we don’t have the same theology of city that the Jewish people had, while also opening Christians to the reality that we have something better as New Covenant believers:
The ancient devout Jew was conscious of the presence of God in Jerusalem, symbolized by the ark of the covenant that rested within the Most Holy Place of the temple. It is why he could say, “God is in her citadels” (v. 3). We cannot say that God is in our cities in the same way, or even in our churches. But we have something better: God in us, in the person of his Holy Spirit … (John 14:16-17). … To have the Holy Spirit within us is a very great bulwark against the world, the flesh, and the devil, against all sin and temptation.[1]
God bless you!
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