- Psalm 15:1 (NAS)
O Lord, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
- Psalm 15:5b (NAS)
He who does these things will never be shaken.
I read Psalm 15 this morning, and I thanked God for the opportunity through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and his shed blood to be close enough to him that my world can’t be shaken.
And I thought what a great place to be – “will never be shaken.”
I mean, this world can be; the wheels can come off in an instant.
But this world in view of God is what I think we are being taught. Looking at my life from the safe place inside God’s tent. Peering over the events of this world from God’s holy hill.
J. J. Heller’s song “Your Hands” – “When my world is shaking, heaven stands.”
That’s what Psalm 15 is talking about. Living in a place where the shaking of this world is in perspective.
The middle verses speak of a lifestyle that allows us this degree of intimacy that we never lose sight of God through all the anguish of life.
- Psalm 15:2–5 (NAS)
2 He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.
3 He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honors those who fear the Lord; He swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5 He does not put out his money at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
He who does these these things; the person whose lifestyle is one in which God dominates his or her choices.
And this person who lets God be God in the details?
Becomes the person to whom God is God in the crisis. And no amount of shaking in this world will dislodge him or her from the perspective of God’s tent or his holy hill.
Ain’t nothin’, nobody, or no how gonna’ do that! (That’s in the Bible somewhere. I think maybe a loose paraphrase of Romans 8.37-39.) 🙂
- Romans 8:37–39 (NAS)
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
As I said, “Ain’t nothin’, ain’t no how gonna’ shake us” as we view life from God’s holy hill.
