Overflowing Hearts - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. You are fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.
Psalm 45:1-2

Overflowing Hearts
The psalmist here was not simply repeating things that he had heard, but his heart was overflowing and his whole soul was delighting in contemplating the King. Now he speaks what he himself had composed concerning Him. His tongue was indeed like the pen of one who writes with free-flowing ease. He was not working hard at trying to compose something; rather his heart and then his words were overflowing as he thought of the King.

Of course, the King is the Messiah of Israel, whose advent every godly Jew anticipated with great expectation. This is the One who would rule in righteous and majestic glory.

How much greater reason do we have today for spontaneous adoration of this blessed Person! To us, He is more than King; He is our Lord, the eternal Son of God, the precious Son of Man, our Savior. He has accomplished eternal redemption for our souls in His matchless sacrifice of unutterable suffering, revealing the pure, boundless love of the Father. How much fairer He is than all the sons of men! We have seen this and have known it in the sublime history of His life and of His death in such a way as the psalmist had never seen. Grace is poured upon His lips, and grace is poured out to us now as a result of that blessed sacrifice. God has blessed Him forever, rewarding Him by exalting Him to His own right hand. Surely there is every reason for our hearts to overflow to Him in thankful praise! It indeed delights His heart to hear our words expressing praise to Him; even our simple, faltering words bring joy to His heart.

L. M. Grant