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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 132:16
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
132:16. More is promised than was prayed for. See how the ninth verse asks for the priests to be clad in righteousness, and the answer is, I will also clothe her priests with salvation. God is wont to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or even think. Righteousness is but one feature of blessing; salvation is the whole of it. What cloth of gold is this! What more than regal array! Garments of salvation! Not every priest shall be thus clothed, but only her priests, those who truly belong to Zion, by faith which is in Christ Jesus, who has made them priests unto God. These are clothed by the Lord himself, and none can clothe as he does. If even the grass of the field is so clothed by the Creator as to outvie Solomon in all his glory, how must his own children be clad? Truly he shall be admired in his saints; the liveries of his servants will be the wonder of heaven.
And her saints shall shout aloud for joy. Again we have a golden answer to a silver prayer. The psalmist would have the “saints shout for joy.” “That they shall do,” says the Lord, “and aloud too”; they will be exceedingly full of delight; their songs and shouts will be so hearty that they will sound as the noise of many waters, and as great thunders. These joyful ones are not, however, the mimic saints of superstition, but her saints, saints of the Most High, “sanctified in Christ Jesus.” These shall be so abundantly blessed and so satisfied and so appareled that they cannot do otherwise than shout to show their astonishment, their triumph, their gratitude, their exultation, their enthusiasm, their joy in the Lord. Zion has no dumb saints. The sight of God at rest among his chosen is enough to make the most silent shout. If the morning stars sang together when the earth and heavens were made, much more will all the sons of God shout for joy when the new heavens and the new earth are finished, and the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride for her husband. Meanwhile, even now the dwelling of the Lord among us is a perennial fountain of sparkling delight to all holy minds. This shouting for joy is guaranteed to Zion’s holy ones: God says they shall shout aloud, and depend upon it they will: who shall stop them of this glorying? The Lord has said by his Spirit, “let them shout,” and then he has promised that “they shall shout aloud”: who is he that will make them hold their peace? The Bridegroom is with them, and will the children of the bride-chamber fast? No, indeed, we rejoice, and will rejoice.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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