Psalm 28: 8-9 The Lord is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
O save your people, and bless your heritage;
be their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
Psalm 28 ends with this strange mixture of pleading with God and sounding as if the salvation has already been granted. Verse 8 sounds like a celebration of God's saving in the past: "The Lord is the strength of his people..." while verse 9 returns to praying for the saving.
This is a wonderful example of the great mixed-up chronology of the Bible, and of faith. We know that God saves, and yet we don't experience it every moment. We pray for deliverance, and we know that it's there. We know that God has defeated death, and yet we still die. It's a jumbled world of faith in which we live. But it always comes back to an assurance that God is a God who saves. Every time.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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