Who Is The King of Glory
Psalm 24
What country boy or girl doesn't love to go out in the field and enjoy the woods, hills, mountains, lakes, rivers, and the wonder of the night sky. That can be the dream of country boys and girls around the world as well as part of the prayer of their heart. Everyone who truly knows me knows that is what I feel and thank God for from my days as a boy and teenager. Though I'm far from that today it still remains in my heart.
For all we know Jesus remembered days in Egypt, Bethlehem, and many years in Nazareth until His ministry began at thirty years of age. Being more of an agrarian culture there was foot travel to and from Egypt, to Jerusalem, and back to Nazareth, then all around the Galilee; also crossing back and forth across the Sea of Galilee in a boat. So many miles traveled, so much country to see and live in during His life.
But then imagining that the fully human Jesus praying this psalm, Psalm 24, thinking of those wonders and then transitioning to not just going to the mountains, but going to the mountains alone to seek the presence of God. He may have even been on a mountain praying this, sharing with His Father the wonder of where He was knowing that He himself was seeking His Father. Then as fully human wondering who does, who can approach God like this? And as He describes who can do it, clean innocent hands and a pure heart He knows that others are indeed seeking His Father's face like as He is.
This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek thy face, this is Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 24:6 GNV
Jesus told the Syro-Phoencian woman that He was sent to the house of Israel, to Jacob. Here it is said, This is Jacob. As David wrote this he may have been thinking of 400 years of corruption in the days of the judges and even a king who turned from the Lord. Jesus could possibly have been thinking of 400 years between the last prophets and His presence now among them, and now they are seeking God's face.
This Selah, this pausing to think and reflect transitions further to thinking of the king of Glory, just who is He? Once again for Jesus to pray this it may be seen similar to how He actually began what is called His High Priestly prayer, John 17, from the outside looking inward at this king of Glory. If He could reflect on what it takes to approach the King of Glory and who He is, then how much more we should be asking of God the same.