Look Around Psalm 134

Introduciton

Good morning everyone. It is a joy to be with you. Today on this palms Sunday we conclude our journey in our study of the psalms of Ascent.

I’d love to start with the text

Read Psalm 134

Psalm 134 ESV

A Song of Ascents. Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord! May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!

It is the shortest of the Psalms of Ascent yet it mentions the Lord more then any other psalm except one other and that one is 3 times as long as this one

They’ve been on this journey and the people of God have arrived.

and it’s helpful to realize that from the start becasue it’s something we all have in common with the people of the day we are also on a journey

many of us have a goal. We are people who want to go places and achive our goals

for some it was an academic degree

others career postion

some it you family, or the number of kids you want, maybe it’s visiting a country or even accomplishing something else on your “bucket list’

we are heading somewhere and there may come a day were we get what we want but then we find out what we’ve gotten wasn’t really want we wanted at all

maybe it’s at those times we look aroudn and we are less fulfilled then we thought we would be

and it’s here in Psalm 134 the psalmist says we have arrived and it’s better then we could have imagined. The Nasb is helpful here becasue it includes a word some translations leave out and it is the world “behold”

in other words the psalmist tells the people stop. Look around and behold were you are

(JESUS JOURNEY)