Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation. Psalm 68:19
How does God become blessed? Can He who created all things, the one who is all powerful, all knowing, the every where God be blessed? Evidently He can be blessed. I suppose the analogy that illustrates this might be that of an inventor (or creator) who upon seeing his invention do what it was designed to do draws satisfaction from it. It pleases the inventor to see it work like he planned for it to work. Perhaps God is blessed with His creation when He sees it operate like He intended it to operate. Ultimately, I suppose, He is pleased, for His will is always done.
I also see in this one little verse, that the Lord bears our burden. He cares for the weight of this world on our shoulders as it would want to crush us, to defeat us, and He says “Give me that heavy load.” In the most awesome way, He took it all upon Himself at the place of the skull (Golgotha), where Jesus, our Lord, effectively became our Savior, receiving upon His most noble shoulders the filth and decadence of this world, our sin, and dealt with it.
Yet it doesn’t just end there. I skipped a word. “Daily.” Our great, awesome and loving God daily takes our burden for He cares for us at all times. I care for my family, wife, kids, grandkids, but at times I grow weary of the exercise; but our great God never does. He never grows weary or faint!
So, as an extension, our salvation is in good hands, it is secure in the nature of our God, and gladly, not in ours. He is our salvation. It is not a thing to possess like a key chain or a wallet full of cash with which we cry out, “Mine, mine, mine.” Rather it is a relationship with the Creator God who cares for His creation. One in which we assuredly have an important part, but not in locking it away, rather, in living it out.
Help us, Lord God to live our relationship of salvation with You in light of Your great care for us and blessing You in the process.
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