The Lesson title this Monday morning is just a small Portion of the last Verse of Psalm 28. And though I have read it a number of times before. it just “came alive” to me a few minutes ago!

In fact, that entire last Verse deserves a Bible Portion Booklet! (Those of you who have attended any of our Revivals over the past five or six years know what I mean.)

Here it is, Verse 9 … “Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.” What a parade of verbs!

“Save, Bless, Feed,” then “Lift up for ever!”

An interesting sequence!

You have not really been “blessed” until you have assuredly been “saved!”

And you will have no spiritual hunger either, no need (or desire) of being “fed,” until you have been “saved!” Born again, as (needy) little babes in Christ!!

Wow!

But the Clause that most spoke to me today was the Prayer: “And lift them up for ever.”

The child of God often needs “lifting up.” The Hebrew word employed here is “nasa,” which indeed means “lifted up” dozens of times in the Old Testament, it also supplies the idea of “being carried” by another!

To undergird us when we are weak, discouraged, belittled, spiritually tired! (To carry a load, that’s what Jesus does for us!)

In Isaiah’s words, and Paul’s … “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.”

The Lord Who has saved me and blessed me and fed me … is now being asked “to lift me up forever!”

To NEVER “let me down,” can it be worded that way?

Yes!

“Lift (us) up for ever.”

Sort of sounds like “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33:27

Jesus, Who never failed or was discouraged (Isaiah 42:4) … will lift me up forever!

He knows we are but dust! (Psalm 103:14 … “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”)

And He is determined to “lift up” His people forever!

Now, in closing, Psalm 28:8, one verse previous to our Text … “The LORD is their STRENGTH, and he is the saving STRENGTH of his anointed.” And that is WHY He can perpetually lift us up!

And I say, “HALLELUJAH!”

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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