December 19: Psalm 67

Psalm 67 

“God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him” (v7).  This is the earth God intended: fertile (v6), productive, joyful, and in harmony with its Creator.  When God’s way and His salvation are known everywhere (v2), then peace and righteousness prevail.   Sin broke the harmony and poisoned the productivity, but God in His lovingkindness kept working out His redemptive plan, from Abraham to a holy baby born in a stable. 

“Let the peoples praise Thee, O God” (v5).  One day God’s redeemed people from “the ends of the earth” will praise Him in a healed and renewed world.