1st Sunday Meditation: God Is Our God Forever

PSALM 48

A Psalm of the sons of Korah

celebrating the beauty and security of Zion

as God's unconquerable fortress

Mount Zion from the Mount of Olives
Jerusalem, Israel

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised

in the city of our God! His holy mountain.

Fair and beautiful in elevation, is the joy

of all the earth, Mount Zion, the City of David,

to the northern side, Mount Moriah and the temple,

the whole city of the Great King!

God has made Himself known in her palaces

as a Refuge, a High Tower, and a Stronghold.

For, behold, the kings assembled, they came onward,

and they passed away together.

They looked, they were amazed; they were stricken

with terror and took to flight, affrighted and dismayed.

Trembling took hold of them there and pain,

as of a woman in childbirth.

With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the 

Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish

it forever. Selah pause, and calmly think of that!

We have thought of Your steadfast love, O God,

in the midst of Your temple.

As is Your name, O God, so is Your praise to 

the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness,

rightness and justice.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice

because of Your righteous judgments!

Walk about Zion, and go round about her,

number her towers, her lofty and noble deeds of past days,

Consider well her ramparts, go through her palaces and citadels,

that you may tell the next generation and cease recalling disappointments.

For this God is our God forever and ever; 

He will be our guide even until death.

The Messiah Gate
Jerusalem, Israel

"I,  the Lord, have called You, the Messiah,
for a righteous purpose and in righteousness;
I will take You by the hand and will keep You;
I will give You a covenant to the people, Israel,
for a light to the nations, Gentiles.
Isaiah 41:6