Finishing Well pt. 2 - Psalm 71
August 4, 2023

What makes this Psalm unique is that we find out that this one is written in his old age. Oh the perspective we gain about that which is most important when our strength has been poured out.

Psalm 71:16

“With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come…”

We all have a “righteousness” in which we boast.

Psalm 71:17-21

“…and I still proclaim Your wondrous deeds.”

Thinking biblically about our past:

  • Will it teach us so that we can teach?

  • Will it show us that there is no one like our God?

  • Will it drive us to fight for our present?

    • Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building. But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’ Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. He said to me, ‘It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.’ —1 Chronicles 28:2–7 (ESV)

    Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. —1 Kings 2:10–12 (ESV)

    Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. —Psalm 139:16 (ESV)

    Psalm 71:22-24

    It’s not crazy to think that the “normal” life is a life consumed with being with the Lord.