I am surrounded by evil people O God, my Saviour; and while my heart clings to the truth and chooses to live in righteousness after all of Your commands, I find myself in the minority. The journey on this “narrow way” is lonely just as you said Adonai, because few are they who find it. As I draw near to Thy presence O God who dwells within me, I call on Thee. There are times when my heart is in distress because of the feeling of loneliness. Yet I know that though I may feel lonely, I am not alone. Therefore my heart is encouraged because You answer me when I call unto Thee.
Song of Ascents comprises of a collection of 15 psalms from Psalm 120 to 134. While there are a number of suggestions as to what the phrase, “Song of Ascents” could mean, one thought is that these psalms were sung by Israel as they went up to Jerusalem to celebrate the three annual feasts that the Lord had commanded. We are in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which started on the 15th day of the first month of the Biblical calendar (or on the evening of March 30, 2018). During this seven day feast, Israel went up to Jerusalem singing these Songs of Ascent.
My purpose of posting a verse from these psalms each day—during these days between the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) which in Greek is called Pentecost—is so that as we too—if you are a son (or daughter) of Israel, even though you once may have been a Gentile but now through the great grace shown to us by the Father and through the blood of the Messiah Yeshua—can pilgrim into the presence of the Most High God (for we are the temple of God and the Holy Spirit dwells in us) singing these psalms to Him who sits on the throne (in heaven and in our hearts).
Join with me then O son of Israel and let us exalt the name of our God together as we pilgrim on His appointed feast days just as He commanded (Lev. 23).
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