A Journey Through the Psalms: Reflections for Worried Hearts and Troubled Times
Preaching the Psalms Cycles A, B, C
What a beautiful thing is rendered here. A covenant made and kept. A promise uttered and maintained. God's faithfulness to the line of David is unalterable. Promises kept are powerful things, aren't they? It's been told to many a child by parents and caregivers that a person's word is their bond. Think about the people we trust the most in our lives. They are inevitably the ones who keep their word. The need to keep our promises is one of the things that literally makes life possible. The glue of culture, in fact, is the ability to trust that people will do what they say they will do.