Psalm 34:1-10
We’ve had so many laments; finally today we get a Psalm that is full of praise! In fact, the first four verses make up a worship song familiar to many of us; it’s hard to read those words without singing them!
So many of today’s verses are straightforward. However, I fear that the second half of verse 10 can easily be misunderstood: The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. It’s easy to think that “no good thing” reflects things that we want, that we somehow feel that the Lord would desire for us. But we don’t know His mind or why He does what He does. Instead of asking for that “good thing” we need always to be seeking His will for whatever “good thing” He has in mind for us. There is a second caveat for verse 10b: No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11b) For us to attain to whatever is that “good thing” that He has in mind for us, we truly need to be seeking Him. But I pray for us that we can attain to His “good things”!