I know the human writer is Asaph.

In fact, I’d like to some day preach a whole Revival using as my Text each evening … one of the Psalms of Asaph, this godly man! There are 12 of them, according to the superscripts anyway. Those being Psalm 50, then consecutively Psalms 73 through 83.

In more than one of his compositions (again, 12 Holy Spirit inspired Poems or Hymns) this little lover of our Lord (Asaph) speaks of the benefits of going to the House of God!

For example, Psalm 73:17, in part. “Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I ….” Yes, many things are understood, or better understood, when in attendance at some local Assembly, some Bible-preaching Church!

Now today, in our verse, Psalm 77:13 … we see the same phenomenon yet again. “Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?”

Wow!

Asaph sincerely believes this. God is best illuminated in the place where He is worshipped, in His “sanctuary!” His very “way” is found there! The noun translated “way” is “derek” in Hebrew, signifying one’s “manner, habit, course of life,” as well as “road, path, journey.”

Another Psalmist expressed this same Truth in the following verbiage. “For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.” Psalm 36:9

Get yourself where God’s Light is to be found (the Sanctuary … the Holy Place) … and you will surely “see light,” His very “Light!”

And as soon as Asaph gets back to God’s House … he assuredly asks (already knowing the Answer) … “Who is so great a God as our God?”

Amen!

David, when away from Jerusalem (due to persecution or matters of business) longed for God’s House! “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee.” Psalm 84:1-4

Next time you’re at Church … don’t just sing! Or listen to the Sunday School Lesson! Or just take notes during the Sermon! Or fellowship with those who sit near you!

THINK!

THINK ABOUT GOD!

ASK HIS HOLY SPIRIT FOR GUIDANCE, DIRECTION, ILLUMINATION!

BASK IN HIS GLORY!

Prove in your own life … “Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?”

WORSHIP!

Learning God’s Ways … at God’s House!

Sure makes sense, doesn’t it?

— Dr. Mike Bagwell