In The Light

For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? 

Psalm 56:3, 13 

What is the end result of trusting in God? As David concludes the psalm from which our text derives, he expresses his confidence for the future based on God’s actions on his behalf. Verse thirteen articulates his certainty about his future. Because God has delivered his soul from death and has kept his feet from falling, he anticipates that he will walk before God in the light of the living. This statement was true for David in the immediate sense, in that God did deliver him from the hands of the Philistines, but it also has a much larger implication. David’s expectation was not confined to this life only. His confidence in Christ was such that he anticipated the day when he would be with Christ in the light of the living for all eternity. Christ’s statement from John 11 is an all-encompassing statement which applies to all who believe. He said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die….’ This is the end result of trust in Christ. He is able to keep us from falling and to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. Our future is with Him. Because He lives, we shall live also. The life we have with Him now is but the prelude to eternity with Him.  

Our Glorious, Living Christ, 
we rejoice that You are our hope. 
We praise You that we shall walk with You, 
in the light of the living. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning