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Daily Devotion: Psalm 24:6-10

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Psalm 24:6-10    "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.  (7)  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  (8)  Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.  (9)  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  (10)  Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah."

Everywhere we look, we see people searching, longing, trying to find something to satisfy the emptiness that is within. We all have a void within us that must be filled in order for us to have a life of contentment. The corporate world is constantly presenting new gadgets that promise a life of ease and fulfillment. But they fail to do that. If gadgets gave us what we are looking and longing for then corporations would go out of business because we would never need anything else.  

This is the generation that is seeking. But what are we seeking for?  When others do not come up to our expectations, we see ourselves as being victims. The problem seems to me to be one of looking in all the wrong places for contentment and fulfillment.  Long before the Lord Jesus came into this world, David was instructing the people to seek and to lift up their heads. Stop looking inside for self contentment and stop looking around to find something to fulfill us. Rather, lift up your heads and the KING of glory shall come in.  

Who is this King of glory?  David asked the question before he could speak the name of Jesus, but he knew where we should be looking. He knew the promise of the Messiah to come and he knew this was the place to find the answers. Look to Jesus for the fulfillment and satisfaction for which we are craving. Look to Jesus for He is strong and mighty. He is able to calm the storm. He is able to walk on top of the storm and hold our hands while in the midst of it. David asks the question twice: "Who is this King of glory?" And then he answers the question twice: "The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory." And then he ends this statement with that word that leads us to stop and think about what was just said: Selah.

The Apostle Paul had something to say along these same lines.  "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  (9)  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.  (10)  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power." (Colossians 2:8-10)   Stop looking to the world for completion. Stop thinking others can give it to you. Lift up your head and look to Jesus.  Once we are properly focused on Him, He will lead us to those things in the world which are best for us. 

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