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Read: Psalm 126 vs 1-6

Psalm 126 continues on the theme of ‘Ascents’, songs that were sung by God’s worshipping people as they made their way up to the Temple in Jerusalem. Like many of the psalms, this song encourages God’s people to give praise now based on what God has done in the past. The song specifically looks back to a time when ‘the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion’ (‘Zion’ here, vs 1, refers to Jerusalem, the capital of the Promised Land). 

Read: Psalm 124 vs 1-8

Today we come to the next of our ‘Song of Ascents’, and this is another one written by David. This psalm pictures the people making their way to Jerusalem, and yet as they do they are very aware that this was a journey they might never have made. There’s an old fashioned phrase (that I associate with my Granny’s generation) where people used to talk about ‘being spared’. It’s the idea of having been given life, and receiving life and each day as a gift from God.