Psalm 92 is a song for the Sabbath. This title has puzzled some, because there is nothing in the song that explicitly talks about Sabbath. But when you think about Psalm 92 in the context of Book 4 of the Psalter, it begins to make sense.
After all, there is no Son of David on the throne. The temple has been destroyed. Maybe, by the time Book 4 was compiled, the temple had been rebuilt, but we know that after Exile, the Jews began to emphasize the Sabbath in a new way.
The Sabbath command goes all the way back to Creation, when God blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it – he made it holy. All the other ways that we count time are based on the rhythms of nature – months are based on the cycles of the moon, days and years are based on the cycles of the sun. But weeks are based on God’s own work of creation.
The Sabbath is based on God’s mighty deeds in forming the all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
And (as we will see in Psalm 95), God called his people to enter his rest. The call for Israel to enter the Promised Land is a sort of Sabbath. But Israel failed to enter God’s rest – and that’s why Jesus came – because Jesus is the one who entered God’s rest on the eighth day – on the first day of the new creation.
That’s why Christians have always observed the eighth day – Sunday – as our day of worship – as the day when we enter God’s rest.
And while there are many Psalms that could have been titled this, it is important and useful for us to see why this Psalm is particularly suited for the Sabbath.
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