Wherever You Are!

 

Psalm 137:4 How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    let my right hand forget its skill!
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!

Psalm 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O Lord,

    for they have heard the words of your mouth,

5 and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord,

    for great is the glory of the Lord.

6 For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,

    but the haughty he knows from afar.

In the past two psalms we saw what the pilgrims would sing when they got to Jerusalem.  What about those who were not able to make it? What about those people of God who had no temple to go to? Psalm 137 is a psalm from the heart of those who had been exiled after the fall of Jerusalem and Psalm 138 is a psalm attributed to David, who lived before the temple and was often on the run and could not go to the tabernacle to worship.  What we they to do? Worship God and sing His praises anyway, anywhere they were. They were to remember their calling to teach the songs of God to those foreign lands with foreign gods, even when those peoples mocked them.  The Joy of the Lord was to come out of their hearts and out of their mouths wherever they were.  May thanks and praise to God come out wherever you are today. 

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