As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. (Psalm 48:8)
Many of us have heard stories of miraculous occurrences and Divine intervention on behalf of God’s people from those who have come before us. All of us have read of how God moved on behalf of Israel, her prophets and kings, many times in dramatic fashion to save them from those who would have destroyed them. If you’re like me, you’ve often hoped and prayed that you would live to see something just as miraculous as our forefathers did. But if you’re like me, reflecting on your own experience provokes you to recall that you have most definitely benefited from God’s goodness and handiwork in your life.
That being said, none of us have seen a sea split in two; we’ve never seen the walls of a great city fall flat in an instant at the sound of a trumpet. How many of us have marched out to confront our enemy only to find that 185,000 of them have already been slain by an angel of the Lord? You get the idea: we’ve heard of these things but very few of us have experienced anything quite like what we see described in Scripture. But according to the psalmist, a day is coming when we will see with our own eyes things that our ears have heard from those who came before us.
To underscore the point, consider that Abraham and the patriarchs experienced miracle after miracle and, furthermore, were promised specific things. However, when it came to the specific promise of possessing the land of Canaan, they did not live to see it fulfilled — that was reserved for another generation. Many decades later, another generation suffered under the tyranny of Egyptian taskmasters only hoping to see miracles. In time, under the leadership of Moses, that generation experienced the ultimate miracle — redemption. To that generation the Almighty said, “You shall know that I am the Lord.”
The point is, this present generation may not have seen the kind of miracles that Abraham saw or that the Exodus generation experienced — we have only heard. But as already noted, the psalmist declares that a day is coming when we shall see greater miracles than what they experienced and we, witnessing His might and power, will KNOW that He is the Lord. All of this will be fulfilled when the King reigns from Jerusalem. The greatest miracle will be when His servants are with Him, in the city of the Lord of Hosts, to experience the fruition of every promise God has made to His people, past and present. So let us look beyond today’s trouble and uncertainty to know that this great day is coming — and I believe it is sooner than we realize.
Blessings and Shalom,
Bill
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