This is the shortest psalm, the shortest chapter in the Bible, and it’s smack dab in the middle of the Bible. Read it aloud and praise the Lord!
Psalm 117
1 Praise the Lord, all you nations.
Praise him, all you people of the earth.
2 For his unfailing love for us is powerful;
the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.Praise the Lord!
Psalm 117 NLT
All Means All!
I love how this psalm instructs ALL the nations, ALL the people of the earth to praise the Lord.
All means ALL, and that’s all ALL means!
J. Vernon McGee
As Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3…
3 “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit…
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16-17 NLT
Here’s what that means:
- The World: The WHOLE World — ALL Nations
- Everyone: ALL the people of the earth.
- “All means all, and that’s all all means!”
Get it.
His love is EVERLASTING. It endures FOREVER, ALWAYS. He loved you from the moment you were conceived. Furthermore, He doesn’t want you to perish, which means perdition, destruction, waste, damnable, to die, and pernicious. In other words, hell. You don’t want to go there.
Related: Why did Jesus Need to Die on the Cross?
You have a choice in where your soul spends eternity. You have to make that decision while you’re still living and coherent.
If you’re not sure if you’re saved or not, if you truly want to be born again and have the assurance of salvation, receive the Holy Spirit, feel His Shalom — a peace that surpasses all understanding, and get a 1-way, non-stop ticket to Heaven after you die, or that you won’t be left behind at the Rapture, which can happen at any moment, this is what you have to do…
