Proclamation:
“For what You have done I will always
praise You in the presence of Your faithful people. And I will hope in Your name, for Your name
is good.” Psalm 52:9 (NIV)
Explanation:
The words of this psalm were written under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God by King David. He began this psalm describing boastful,
disgraceful, deceitful, evil men who tell lies to harm people (Psalm 52:1-4) and
what The Lord God was going to do to them. (Psalm 52:5) David ends the psalm stating that he is secure,
protected, and productive like the long-living olive tree in the courtyard of
God’s holy temple, and that he will put his trust in God’s goodness, mercy, and
unfailing love. (Psalm 52:8) He will also
praise The Lord for all that He has done.
Application:
Sometime we focus on the wrong
things. We focus on our problems instead
of on The Lord our God. We tell our God
how big our problems are, but we should tell our problems how big and powerful our
God is. We should not concern ourselves
with the presence or the prosperity of evil doers for they will soon be cut
down. (Psalm 37:1-2) We should reflect upon
the things which The Lord God has done, and then we should praise Him publicly
and privately. When we think about what
He has done for us, we ought to continually thank and praise Him. (Psalm 34:1
and Ephesians 5:20)
