Psalm 68:10

Psalm 68:10

God who provides

Let’s just unpack who and what is being referred to here in this verse. Firstly, “Your people” are Israel. The land that they settled in was the Land of Promise – Israel. And I rather suspect that the “poor” mentioned here, are the people who had nothing, who were homeless, nomadic and without a permanent resting place; they owned little of value and their only identity was in the God who led them. That was Israel. When these people eventually settled in the land that God provided, it was weary, as were they! But the Lord God had plans, He sent the abundant showers, the land became productive, and the people prospered. It was God’s doing, He provided from His bounty. Everything about this extraordinary story has the fingerprint of Adonai all over it. 

So it is with us my friends, we are His Chosen People. Our inheritance is the Land of Promise. This world is not our resting place, we are strangers and foreigners here. 1 Peter 2:11. We are told not to lay up treasure here on earth, (contrary to the teaching of the prosperity preachers), for our citizenship is in heaven, with Christ. Philippians 3:20. However, we are allowed to taste the produce of the Land of Promise, the Holy Spirit has been given as a guarantee of all that is to come. Through Him we taste the joy, the love and the hope that is before us. In Hebrews 11:13-16 we read of those ancient patriarchs who longed for a better place and who believed, by faith, that God would provide it for His people. Let’s hear how they viewed this world and the future that God had planned, and let’s learn from them today.

“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”

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