Daily Devotions
January 19th, 2022 by Pastor SolleyPs 116:15-19 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
16 O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
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Verse fifteen in this Psalm is the one that caught my attention many years ago as a young boy. My grandfather had died and I wondered and wondered about this verse as I heard it read on that occasion. How could something that brought so much pain be precious in the sight of the Lord? To understand the truth set before us one must look past this world. One must first look to redemption in Christ. (Ps 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.) It was true that his heart had stopped, the body was dead, but the soul and the spirit lived on. One needs to see that one who has died as delivered and not taken. Delivered to heaven, delivered to the arms of Jesus, delivered to eternal joy and peace. The believer in Christ is not taken in death, they are delivered to Jesus and heaven. We need also to see where our loved one is walking after they are done walking in this world. (Ps 116:9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.) Walking in heaven, walking in the presence of Jesus, walking in the presence of the angels in heaven, walking in the presence of all who have died in Christ and gone on before, but most of all walking in the presence of Jesus. What happens when a believer in Christ, one who has been born again, what happens when that one dies? They are delivered to heaven and found walking in the presence of the Lord.