Saints Should Shout!! Psalms 131-133

Psalms 132:9 (ESV Strong's)
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let your saints shout for joy.

Saints Should Shout!

Psalms 132 is a song that reflects God honoring David’s request to build the Temple for God to dwell in, but in a way David could not have imagined.   God is not only going to allow a Temple to be built, but He promises David he will always have one of his descendants to sit on the throne in Jerusalem.   What others may have understood at the time was this was a physical kingdom and David’s actual descendants would sit on the throne.  Although that happened for many years, as well, what God was talking about was that one of the David’s “sons” was going to be “Christ” and the Christ would sit on the through of the Kingdom of God.   Because of this truth the writer of this Psalms gives us the above passage.   The song is asking that the priests/saints of God be clothed with righteousness and will have shouts of joy.   When Paul told us to put on the armor  of God he told us to take up the Breastplate of Righteousness.   When Paul gave us the Fruit of the Spirit he told us that we would have Joy.    When you combine these two we see that being declared “righteous” (Romans 5) gives us the reason for joy.   We can rejoice because we are declared righteous.   All the saints of the Lord should shout for joy.