We Have Eternal Hope
I love to sing, and there are so many great psalms that talk about singing to the Lord and shouting his praises. Psalm 92 starts out, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High.”
Whether I’m in a good mood or a bad mood, singing praises to the Lord is just a response to what he has done. If you look at verse 4, it says, “For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work.”
So, it is his work that makes us glad. And what is the work that we are rejoicing about? What are we so excited about? We’re excited because he solved our greatest problem. He is the one who saved our souls. He sent Christ to die for our sins, so we have eternity. No matter what’s going on and no matter how crazy life is, we can always find joy in the fact that our problems are temporary and that he’s coming back for us.
Turn Your Eyes
Winfree Brisley, Sharonda Cooper
Turn Your Eyes provides a structured, step-by-step method to help readers observe, interpret, and apply the Psalms, helping us turn to God in every season and circumstance of life.
At the end—and this psalm resonates with me because I just turned fifty—in verse 12 it says, “The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They’re planted in the house of the LORD. They flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
Again, it reminds you that you are finite. You are not going to live forever, but there’s this hope that you will bear fruit in your old age, and then it comes right back around to who God is. God is upright. He is my rock. There’s no unrighteousness in him.
It’s just a beautiful song of joy, that says that every season of life is a fruitful season. It’s an opportunity to rejoice in who he is and what he’s done. And my worst days here are nothing because I have that excitement, ready to go worship him in eternity.
Sharonda Cooper is coauthor with Winfree Brisley of Turn Your Eyes: A Bible Study on the Psalms.
Sharonda Cooper (MEng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) serves as content coordinator of women’s initiatives for the Gospel Coalition. She is a coauthor of Turn Your Eyes and a contributor to Fruitful and Unto Us. Sharonda is currently pursuing her MDiv in apologetics and philosophy from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.
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