Song of Ascents - Psalm 120, Verse 3

I ask Adonai, that all who read Your word would handle it accurately just as Paul wrote to Timothy. I pray that there would be great reverence and fear for You and Your word so that we do not treat the truth frivolously. Help us to remember that we are accountable for our words and will be judged by You when we stand before Your throne—for You warned us that by our words will we be justified or condemned (Mt. 12:36-37). May we never forget that Thou O Righteous One will grant to each according to what he has done—to the righteous, a crown of life; but to the ones who like Pharisees set aside the truth in Your word and follow the traditions of men, condemnation and indignation. Your words, "Woe to you Pharisees" is a warning all should take seriously.

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 (Lev. 23; Ex. 23:14).

We are in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which started on the 15^th 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 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.