DAY 148: Psalms 111–118

Welcome to 5 -Minute Bible, your daily guide for your daily reading. Today is May 28th and we will be looking at Psalms 111 -118.

After David prepares the kingdom and organizes the worship and entrusts the future into God's hands, we now move into a magnificent collection of praise psalms that are overflowing with covenant celebration and kingdom joy.

Psalm 111 -118 builds steadily towards triumphant worship that is centered on God's steadfast love, the mighty salvation that He brings, and His victorious reign.

These psalms would later become deeply associated with Israel's great festal celebrations and ultimately with the final week of Christ's earthly ministry.

That way, Psalm 111 praises God for His wonderful works and His covenant faithfulness, righteousness, and provision, declaring that the fear of the

Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Psalm 112 then shows the life that is shaped by the fear of the

Lord. The righteous person reflects upon God's generosity, stability, compassion, and faithfulness while walking in confident trust.

Psalm 113 -114 celebrates God's majesty and His redemption of Israel during the

Exodus. The God who reigns above the nations also stoops low to care for the weak, the needy, the barren, and the oppressed.

Psalm 115 contrasts the living God with powerless idols and repeatedly calls God's people to trust in the

Lord alone. Then Psalm 116 becomes deeply personal, celebrating God's deliverance from death and affliction with thanksgiving and worship.

Psalm 117 suddenly expands outward and summons all the nations to praise the

Lord for His steadfast love and enduring truth. Then Psalm 118 climaxes the entire collection with a joyful celebration of God's victory and His salvation.

The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone, the gates of righteousness are opened, and the psalm resounds with thanksgiving for God's enduring covenant love.

So as you read today, I want you to ask the following question. What happens when God's people truly recognize the greatness of His faithfulness and His salvation?

Because these psalms show us that worship becomes expansive, joyful, confident, and even global when it is rooted in the steadfast love of God.

And in that way, the central pattern in these psalms is the movement from redemption into overflowing worship.

Again and again, the psalmist rehearsed what God has done. He's the one who delivers His people and the one who defeats

His enemies. He's the one who preserves covenant faithfulness. He's the one who overthrows the idols and rescues us from death and reigns over all the nations.

And the proper response to all of it is praise. Another major pattern is the widening scope of God's kingdom.

Earlier in Israel's history, worship often centered more narrowly upon national deliverance.

But these psalms increasingly open outward toward all nations praising the

Lord. Psalm 117 in that way especially explodes beyond the borders of Israel, calling the entire world into covenant worship.

Psalm 118 then brings all of the themes together, suffering and victory, rejection and enthronement, deliverance and kingship, all praise given to God in all areas of life.

The rejected stone becoming the cornerstone reveals that God often accomplishes salvation through what the world would dismiss and oppose and despise.

Remember, He uses the foolish things to shame the quote -unquote wise. This presses into our life with a kind of profound clarity because humans naturally drift towards forgetfulness, anxiety, idolatry, complaining, self -focus, and worship reorients the soul by forcing us to remember who

God is and to remember what He has done and to remember how secure His covenant faithfulness truly is which should cause us to praise

Him. And all of this converges powerfully in the Lord Jesus Christ because Psalm 111's wisdom and covenant faithfulness find their fulfillment in Him.

Psalm 114's exodus imagery points ultimately to Christ who leads us out of slavery to sin and into a greater redemption.

Psalm 115's rejection of idols contrasts with Christ, the true image of the invisible

God. Psalm 116's deliverance anticipates Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection victory.

Psalm 117 calls for all the nations to praise the Lord which will be fulfilled by Jesus and His great commission.

And Psalm 118 becomes one of the great messianic climaxes of the entire Psalter. Jesus explicitly applies the rejected cornerstone passage to Him.

And the crowds quote this passage during His triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. When Israel celebrated partially through feast and worship was now becoming realized in Jesus.

The rejected king who was becoming the cornerstone. The suffering servant who was becoming the enthroned ruler.

Death gave way to resurrection victory in Jesus. Salvation is going to reach the nations in Jesus.

And the steadfast love of the Lord is going to endure forever through Jesus. So as you read these psalms today,

I want you to notice how worship increasingly expands outward toward the nations.

And it culminates in the victorious reign of the rejected cornerstone. And tomorrow we will transition fully into Solomon's rise as David's reign fades and the kingdom enters into a new era of wisdom, peace, and temple glory.

And with that, read your Bible carefully, devotionally, and joyfully. And may the Lord use