"Great is the Lord .. in the city of our God". The Psalmist is calling on the people to praise the Lord and realise that He is great amongst them. He is great in their midst. Time and time again they forgot that the Lord was great in their midst. So when danger loomed they turned to other nations and other gods, instead of calling on the Lord.
We can apply this to ourselves as well. The living Lord has come to dwell within us. Jesus said that whoever believes in Him, streams of living water will flow from him. We should expect the Lord to do great things among us. We should praise His name always.
The Psalm then moves on to declare the beauty of Zion. She has this beauty because of the Lord. In the same way the Holy Spirit is making us beautiful in Him.
We get fearful when danger looms, but verses 4-7 tells us that when forces attack they soon become afraid and flee in terror. We belong to Christ, we are marked as belonging to Him.We need to learn to delight in our security in the Lord.
How do we do this? By meditating on His love. We need to delight in what the Lord has done, in what He is doing, and in what He will do.
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