89:1-2 As God's children, we make a commitment to praise and speak about Him. As the Psalmist points out, the foundation of our Father's house has been built with faithfulness and mercy forever; meaning that, our God will never abandon us and will constantly forgive us from a place of compassion. We do not just receive God's forgiveness. We receive God forever. And His forgiveness is given without a grudge, without resentment or reluctance. He forgives with heartfelt compassion. His love is unique and emphatic and generous.
89:3-4 Scripture contains the promise of His eternal presence that He declared. Do we know those promises that He has made to us? To claim them, we must know them. To have peace from them we must be familiar with them. God has made a covenant with His righteous children... and ancient, eternal, relevant, present-day promise. He has promised to be our family forever.
89:5-10 We praise God on earth; He is praised in the heavens. Because he cannot be compared to. His kindness is unmatched. His faithfulness and strength and wisdom and creativity is unmatched. He commands nature, He invented it. He declared righteousness and whoever, whatever opposes it, He crushes.
89:11-12 Everything belongs to God. He created all and founded His kingdom as its head. We have the comfort of knowing that everywhere we are, every place we look, anywhere we have to walk through belongs to Him and is within His authority.
89:13-18 Our God is a wise creator but He is also strength. He is also authority. And blessed are those who rejoice in that truth. For He upholds righteousness, and protects our peace. He lights our way. Therefore we praise. He is our savior, our home, our warrior, our King.
89:19-23 When the people accepted God's will over their lives, they had peace and power and prosperity. God chose David, the youngest of a humble family to establish a nation. He built in David the wisdom and courage necessary to solidify Israel's presence in the midst of enemy and opposition.
We should accept and rejoice in God's will over our lives. We should invite Him as an authority. He should make the decisions: Romans 8:26, God knows what we need better than we do. His will provides. Protects. Guides. Lights. Plans. God's love is comprehensive, progressive, bold, victorious.
89:24-29 David loved God emphatically. His love for God was the joy and purpose of his life. When we make such commitments to righteousness, God's light illuminates a beautiful, blessed path for us to walk and achieve along. A path that leads right into the kingdom and continues forever.
89:30-37 God has promised to be a true Father to us. He loves us without partiality or condition. He also disciplines us when we need to change and grow. He will not award bad behavior because He knows that would be a toxic lifestyle for us. He wants the best for us. Many times in history, people have abandoned God and forsaken righteousness. They walked off the path and lost the light. God is faithful to us, but we often are not faithful to Him. We must learn from scripture that abandonment of our faith and commitment to righteousness leads to desolate. We must remember that it is easier to forgive, to change, to humble ourselves than to live in the desolation that anger, pride and greed cause.
89:38-45 When our choices cause us to need discipline, we cannot blame God. God is good. Every move He makes is for our well-being. He does not abandon or ignore. It is we who walk away from God. If we want blessing, we need to move ourselves near to Him and remain there.
89:46-48 God does not hide from His beloved children. He has wrath only for the evil. We often forget how short our lives are but God does not. He wants our lives to be as blessed as possible and if discipline is required to accomplish that, so will it be. In death we cannot praise Him. Because He deserves praise, we should make our best, righteous effort to live, to eternally praise Him.
89:49-51 Ironically, like the Psalmist, we pray for God to remember us. But we are the ones who forget Him.God made an eternal commitment to the whole of humanity and He knew of each member when He made that commitment. He does not forget; in fact, He knows the details (Luke 12:7), and inner thoughts of each of us (Psalms 139:2). He remembers to protect us, to provide for us, to do all that He does that we do not realize or know we need. We need to remember that, and praise Him.
89:52 "Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen."
