Reflections on Psalm 92

 

Psalm 92 (Contemporary English Version)


1. (A psalm and a song for the Sabbath.) It is wonderful to be grateful and to sing your praises, LORD Most High!
   
2. is wonderful each morning to tell about your love and at night to announce how faithful you are.
   
3. enjoy praising your name to the music of harps,
   
4. everything you do makes me happy, and I sing joyful songs.
   
5. do great things, LORD. Your thoughts are too deep
   
6. an ignorant fool to know or understand.
   
7. the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.
   
8. you will rule over all of us forever,
   
9. your hateful enemies will be scattered and then destroyed.
   
10. have given me the strength of a wild ox, and you have chosen me to be your very own.
    
11. eyes have seen, and my ears have heard the doom and destruction of my terrible enemies.
    
12. people will prosper like palm trees, and they will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.
    
13. will take root in your house, LORD God, and they will do well.
    
14. will be like trees that stay healthy and fruitful, even when they are old.
    
15. they will say about you, "The LORD always does right! God is our mighty rock."

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Psalm 92 identifies itself as a "song for the Sabbath day." The intent of the Sabbath, besides a day of rest, is to be a time to reflect on God and give praise to Him. This psalm says it is "good to praise the Lord." It is healthy for a person to recognize and to declare that it is not about me, but about God. I may talk about 'controlling my own destiny,' but in truth, I don't really have much control over my destiny. Only God has that control. So it is healthy to recognize the One who is in control. Though a bit blunt, verse 6 tells us that it is a fool who doesn't recognize God's hand in everything. He doesn't understand God's magnificent works or how profound His thoughts.

Though the wicked have no clue, it is good for the righteous to recognize that evildoers may seem to flourish but they will be eternally destroyed. The righteous, on the other hand, will thrive in God's courtyards. Even in old age they will bear fruit. The wicked will have misused their bodies and come to old age in poor health, but the righteous will still be fruitful. And in old age they will still be praising God who "is my rock."