Psalm 48

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
    in the city of our God!
His holy mountain,
2 beautiful in elevation,
   is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
   the city of the great King.
3 Within her citadels God
   has made himself known as a fortress.
4 For behold, the kings assembled;
   they came on together.
5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
   they were in panic; they took to flight.
6 Trembling took hold of them there,
   anguish as of a woman in labor.
7 By the east wind you shattered
   the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen
   in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
   which God will establish forever. Selah
9 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
   in the midst of your temple.
10 As your name, O God,
   so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
   because of your judgments!
12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
   number her towers,
13 consider well her ramparts,
   go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
14 that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
   He will guide us forever.

This is victory psalm, a song of celebration because the Lord has delivered Jerusalem from his enemies.

One phrase in particular stuck out to me:

“As we have heard, so have we seen” [Psalm 48:8].

In other words, we’d heard about what you have done in the past, Lord, but now we’ve actually seen it with our own eyes.

I think we should pray the same thing for our lives.

“Lord, help us to see cool stuff in our own time.”

TODAY, LORD!