Month: April 2025

¹⁸ The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care,
    and their inheritance will endure forever.
¹⁹ In times of disaster they will not wither;
    in days of famine they will enjoy plenty. Psalm 37

Some more great promises from Psalm 37. Verse 18 speaks of the supernatural element in the life of the righteous, God’s personal care for those He loves, continuing right on into eternity. The God of all creation cares for His children and grants us a lasting inheritance with Him in heaven.

The following verse, 19, is a further promise that God watches over us, even in times of hardship and difficulty. Our loving Father can keep His children in the hard times as well as the good times. Remember how God sent Joseph ahead of Abraham and his brothers into Egypt. Joseph was God’s man, but he was hidden from everyone in the land until God began the countdown by giving Pharaoh two dreams of future events. Nothing made any sense to Joseph about his life until God called him to the position prepared for him as, ‘A father to Pharaoh’.

⁸ ‘So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. Genesis 45

Like Joseph, some of us may be puzzled by the course our lives have taken, but God has the perfect plan to redeem us and set our feet back on the right path.

18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ² ‘Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.’ ³ So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. ⁴ But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Jeremiah 18

God revealed this principle to Jeremiah with a real life example, in the potter’s house. The potter could throw the physical clay on the wheel again and remake the pot into a new design. God can do the same for us His children.

⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me. ⁶ He said, ‘Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?’ declares the Lord. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. Jeremiah 18

God can redeem our lives and situations and make us into new vessels, fit for Kingdom purposes, so long as we yield to His moulding on the wheel of life.

May the Lord bless and keep us today. Immanuel, God is with us.

 

¹ Do not fret because of those who are evil
    or be envious of those who do wrong;
² for like the grass THEY WILL SOON WITHER,
    like green plants THEY WILL SOON DIE AWAY. Psalm 37

I wrote on Psalm 37 in a couple of recent blogs and said it was one of my favourite psalms. Last night Johnny Enlow shared in depth from this psalm on Elijah Streams and interestingly he said that he believed the Lord was saying it would be a good psalm to memorise. It’s an acrostic psalm, the first word of each of the 22 stanzas, begins with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. He said he also felt that believers would benefit from getting the words of the psalm directly into their blood stream, like an intravenous injection. The broadcast was titled Psalm 37 I.V.

Psalm 37 is speaking to the times in which we are alive. The wicked are not going to rule God’s people and this earth indefinitely, as it says in verse 2 above, ‘they will soon wither and soon die away’. We don’t know how long ‘soon’ will be in Earth time, but ‘the times they are a changing’ as Bob Dylan sang back in 1964.

³ Trust in the Lord and do good;
    dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
⁴ Take delight in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37

At the same time as judgement comes upon the wicked God promises blessings will come to the righteous, ‘those who trust in Him and do good’.

⁵ Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him and he will do this:
⁶ he will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
    your vindication (the justice of your cause) like the noonday sun. Psalm 37

I believe that the righteous are literally going to shine, manifest the Glory of God, in the times ahead. It will be an era of increasing light for God’s people and increasing darkness for those who oppose Him and His Kingdom.

⁷ Be still before the Lord
    and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
    when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37

Believers must take a stand for righteousness and for the Lord in these days. The enemy is fighting to keep people enslaved under his domination, but the Lord is on the battlefield now and his grip is weakening. No matter what struggles lie ahead, God is moving on behalf of His people.

⁸ Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
    do not fret – it leads only to evil.
⁹ For those who are evil will be destroyed,
    BUT THOSE WHO HOPE IN THE LORD WILL INHERIT THE LAND. Psalm 37

This psalm repeats that GOD’S CHILDREN WILL INHERIT and when Israel came into their inheritance they drove out false worship. God also told Abraham, the father of all who believe, that the sin of the Amorites had not yet reached its fullness. Genesis 15:16 Sin is reaching and has reached new levels on the earth today, a sure sign that God is soon to intervene. God is very patient but He won’t be mocked and there always comes a time when He says enough.

You may not or may not choose to memorise Psalm 37, but you can read it and lay hold of some of the great promises in it. This is written for our time and it will surely come to pass.

May the Lord bless and keep you today. Immanuel, God is with us.