DAVIDIC PSALMODY BY ENCOMIUM - PART 8

THURSDAY 14 AUGUST 2025

Psalmody should always be offered to God with sincerity of heart and fervent reverence, emblematizing our singing devotion to God. More so, spiritual songs inspire uplifting experiences and persevering aspirations in our earthly endeavours, as well as developmental virtues of godliness in our daily walk with God. More below!

Reference: Psalm 98:1-2 New Living Translation (NLT)

"Sing a new song to the Lord, for He has done wonderful deeds. His right hand has won a mighty victory; His holy arm has shown His saving power! The Lord has announced His victory and has revealed His righteousness to every nation!"

Today's focus is still on the sub-segmental statement:

"The Lord has revealed His righteousness to every nation!"

The revelation of God's righteousness in every nation denotes His sovereignty and benevolent influences over the nations. He has raised up a horn of salvation in every nation of the world, thereby revealing His saving power from divine origin of the mystery, namely Christ. Hence, every nation is significant as the locational base of imputed righteousness, where He keeps redeeming His predestined chosen people.

Statistically observed by means of precise analysis, the last time I checked, there are 195 recognized nations in the world. This includes the 193 member states of the United Nations and two non-member observer states: Vatican City and the State of Palestine. Of the 195 countries in the world: 54 countries are in Africa, 48 in Asia, 44 in Europe, 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 14 in Oceania, and 2 in Northern America.

Hear me: Many a time, when I study the versified statement that reads, "Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes" (Ephesians 1:4 NLT), I get cogitatively enthralled on account of the truth that before the creation of world of 195 nations, He had formed in His mind, people from every nation of such world, whom He had successfully or distinguishably marked for salvation in Christ Jesus.

So from statistical evidence, the revelation of God's righteousness favours God's life and spiritual development in 195 nations at this present moment. No single nation is omitted in God's end time agenda in relation to His purposeful plan for the salvation of mankind. Are you with me? So when you hear about God's own precious possessions travelling to all the nations of the world, or reaching out to souls living in diverse countries at any given rate to administer the great commission, it is denotative of the truth that there is no limitation whatsoever pertaining to God, revealing His righteousness to every nation, since He had every nation in mind even before their creation.

This articulated insight implies that His immutable decision from eternity is the fountain by which His unconditional act of love was demonstrated to the world of humans through the atoning sacrifice of His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Zero wonder Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Romans 1:16-17 (NIV) reads:

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

In accordance with the above versified passage, the very branch of divine power that brings salvation to every nation is known as the "Glorious gospel" which in turn, reveals the righteousness of God in saved humankind. That way, through the preaching of such sacred practice, God's own redeemed people increase in extent or in vastness of numerical analysis, as an enlarged population all around the world, by reason of the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes in Christ - in every single nation of the world. Stay tuned for part 9. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Peter 1:3-5; 2 Peter 3:4; 2 Timothy 1:7-8.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I praise and honour you today with great wordings of delightful encomium because of the Good news of your saving power which is continually exerted by your chosen people while reaching out to the lost souls. Your gracious reign in me through the Lord will continually be shown and declared to the world, full of darkness, until the whole nations of the earth is filled with an awareness of your ever-advancing glory, in Jesus' Name, Amen!