A day of eternal, miraculous significance. This is the kind of day that the Lord makes. It’s in response to glory revealed and realized. “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Psalm 118 also includes “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” This line is again famously shouted in Luke 19:38 on a day so glorious (what we now celebrate as Palm Sunday) that when the Pharisees reject this nonsense rejoicing, Jesus rebukes them in Luke 19:40 with: So, even if you’re wandering in the desert or heading into or coming out of a struggle, the song in your heart is there to pull you through. The day the psalm sings about corresponds with an even better day ahead. But my heart swells with the knowledge that God saw the day in Psalm 118 long before Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey amidst ‘hosannas’ and praise. It’s true that the Lord makes this very day, too, for us to rejoice in. But did God come through as promised? Indeed.

Was there suffering in the lives of God’s people as they sang to him in Psalm 118? Loads. On the day Christ prepares to redeem humanity from sin, they sing from this psalm “This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Parts of this psalm reach through time to connect us with the conclusion of the Last Supper when the disciples sang a hymn with Jesus. As is often beautifully the case throughout Scripture, this “day the Lord has made” isn’t only the very day that the psalm singers are celebrating deliverance and freedom, but foretells of “ the day” for all humanity to rejoice. Living in the light of the New Testament, modern-day Christians are privy to the realization of biblical prophecy. It’s not a command to “get happy,” but rather an awestruck gratitude for God’s steadfast love. Today’s Bible verse is Psalm 118:24 - This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.įar more than a sunny platitude, this powerful verse celebrates God’s strength to call forth morning from our darkest nights of the soul.

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