A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised
in the city of our God!
His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation,
is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.
Within her citadels God
has made himself known as a fortress.
If you travel around the country long enough and far enough you will come by signs and markers about important people who lived in a particular city or town. The town really has nothing noticeable about it. It is typically not very significant. The only thing that makes the city have any notoriety is the fact that some important person was born there, lived there, etc. The above passage is that type of marker for Jerusalem. Yes, the mountain Jerusalem is built upon as one is looking up from the Kidron Valley can have an impressive appearance. No, there was nothing that special about Jerusalem until God claimed it as His home. That is what is so significant about our lives and places like Jerusalem. We have no significance until God takes up residence within us. Jerusalem was just another city and it had many residents. Some even of some importance (King David and Solomon). But what put Jerusalem on the significant map was because God called it home. We are in the same state. We are significant and important not because we have any moral redeeming value. We are important because the God of the universe has chosen to live within us and call us His own. My significance is not based upon position, production or privilege. It is based upon on being His chosen possession.
1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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