Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let your saints shout for joy.
Psalm 132:9
When leaders are righteous, God’s people rejoice. This is a prayer that the priests of God’s temple who were charged with all the daily worship and sacrificial duties, would themselves be men not just committed to a task, but to holiness. It is a hope to God that righteous character would enrobe the hearts of the priests. Then they would lead not just out of mere duty, but in personal holy delight. Their robes would be righteousness. Their deeds would please God because their hearts would seek God.
And in this hope, Israel would rejoice. Holy hearted priests would lead a holy community of saints in shouts of joy as they worshiped. It would be holiness that would yield happiness. Enthusiasm for righteousness would ignite expression in worship. Passion for a holy God would bring praises shouted aloud in the worship gathering.
O Lord,
I want to serve You with a passion for Your holiness. And I know that only You will make me holy. I am sanctified by the final sacrifice of Jesus, my perfect Great High Priest. And that righteousness that is only found in Christ now clothes me. May my praises, and the songs of all Your redeemed saints, be expressive, joyful, and loud as the joy of our salvation burns in us!
Amen
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