Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord, and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it.
--Psalm 22:30-31
On more than one occasion, we hear advice along these lines: Yesterday is over; forget about it. Tomorrow isn't here yet; don't worry about it. All we have is the gift of today; that's why it's called the present.
It's a wise perspective; there's really no doubt about it. We can get into all kinds of mental and emotional trouble when we dwell incessantly about the not-so-nice things about our past. Will it catch up with us? If we look in the other direction, toward the future, we face uncertainty. "Anything could happen," we say. "I may not be here tomorrow." Thus, we adopt -- sometimes unknowingly -- a kind of nervous fatalism about things.
King David, at the tail end of our Psalm for this week, was having none of it. He knew about his past -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. And his future? That had to do with serving the Lord and telling all about Him. Divine deliverance would be proclaimed to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it.
He (the Lord) has done it. That, among other things, is why we're here today. We rejoice that deliverance was proclaimed, in Jesus Christ, to our generation. And ours is to look to the future equipped with the good news of deliverance. It's done!
PD
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