Centre of the world

Centre of the world

Bible:Psalm 48

Your praise reaches to the ends of the earth (V.10).

Reading

You can often tell where a map was made by what sits in its middle. We tend to think our home is the centre of the world, so we put a dot in the middle and sketch out from there. Nearby towns might be fifty miles to the north or half a day’s drive to the south, but all are described in relation to where we are. The psalms draw their ‘map’ from God’s earthly home in the Old Testament, so
the centre of biblical geography is Jerusalem. Psalm 48 is one of many psalms that praise Jerusalem. This “city of our God, his holy mountain” is “beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth” (PSALM 48:1-2). Because “God is in her citadels,” He “makes her secure forever” (VV.3,8). God’s fame begins in Jerusalem’s temple and spreads outwards to “the ends of the earth” (VV.9-10). Unless you’re reading this in Jerusalem, your home is not in the centre of
the biblical world. Yet your country, town and home matters because God will not rest until His praise reaches “to the ends of the earth” (V.10). Would you like to be part of the way God reaches His goal? Spend time with God’s family each week at church and openly live each day for Him. A true knowledge of God will continue spreading “to the ends of the earth” as we also give all that
we are to Him.

THE GOSPEL IS MEANT TO SPREAD
—ARE YOU SHARING IT?

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