Psalm 48:1-8 “A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King. God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.”

The majesty of the city of Jerusalem goes beyond its walls and its elevation. Its majesty is primarily because it is the city of God, where His temple resides, and where His army defends it. The Gentile armies try to defeat her, but they can’t!

The glory of the earthly Jerusalem should remind us of the glory of the heavenly Jerusalem, our coming home.

Hebrews 12:22-24 “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.”

But shouldn’t it also remind us of the place of our own corporate worship, the joy that comes when we gather, and the sanctity of the saints coming together to praise and to learn?

For additional worship: This Is Not a Place of Resting (feat. Jeremy Casella)