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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Psalms 148:1-14
This psalm gives expression to universal praise. It resounds both in the heavens (vv. 1-6) and on the earth (vv. 7-13). A marvellous concert in which every creature will contribute its note! But how is it that material things are invited to join in this symphony (vv. 3, 7. . .)? Romans 8:1-39 teaches us that since the fall creation has been "subject to vanity"; man only uses it to glorify himself. Now the moment is approaching when, at last "delivered from the bondage of corruption", creation will glorify God alone (Romans 8:20-21; Isaiah 55:12-13). Its present "groanings" will give way to a glorious liberty. In its way, it will tell of God’s glory and its voice will be heard (Psalms 19:1-3). It will exalt both its Creator and its Deliverer, the One who made it and the One who through His cross has opened the way for "the restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21).
V. 12 reminds us of that lovely reply of Moses to Pharaoh: "We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, . . . for we must hold a feast unto the LORD" (Exodus 10:9). V. 14 shows us the place which, in the, world to come, God will give to Israel, that people which is "near unto him."
