He Has Done This

A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation, they will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has done this.  

Psalm 22:30-31 

‘Salvation is of the LORD.’ Jonah said it. The rest of the Scripture demonstrates it. We are not our own saviors. Another human cannot save us. No one else but God can save us. He does save us according to His Own explanation. Paul explains it concisely when he says, ‘For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.’ Thus we see that salvation is, from start to finish, the work of God. As our text puts it, ‘He has done this.’ The whole of the psalm has described the intense sufferings of Christ. We have beheld Him hanging on the cross and heard the agonized cries from His lips. We have seen His humiliation and heard from Him how He felt as He suffered. He has related to us in graphic terms what excruciating pain He has endured to purchase our redemption. We read this psalm with the increasing knowledge that God has done the most extensive, intensive, superlative work to redeem us from sin, death, and hell. Therefore we say, ‘To God be the glory, great things He has done.’ We want no credit for any part of salvation. He has done all the work and deserves all the glory. From now through eternity our song shall be, ‘Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see.’ 

Our Glorious Saving God, 
we rejoice in Your grand redemption. 
We praise You that You deserve the glory for it, 
from beginning to end. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning