We’ve all heard or expressed, “they are a bundle of joy”. It for sure applies to a newborn baby within your family. There was also a Hollywood movie by the same name. So, what is a bundle? According to Bible Gateway, it is ‘a number of items bound together; a quantity of something folded or doubled and tied up: a package’. If it is something precious, such as money, gems, a child, you hold it close to you. It’s precious. You want to keep it safe. In cold weather, you bundle up in blankets to stay warm. You bundle up your newborn babies with blankets.
As I was in my morning quiet time reading the Psalms, I was captured by Chapter 144.1, 2. While reading the verses, it became abundantly clear that there was a bundle of things revealed about God in these two short verses. “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold, and my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” This is a song of king David. But it’s very applicable to you and me. He had enemies and so do we. Many are not flesh and blood, but are spiritual in nature. I’m sure David took great comfort in this bundle of God’s attributes, and he wanted to express it to the Lord. Praise would be the word for it.
First, he has a Lord, his rock, the one who trains and readies him for the battle, providing steadfast love, a fortress, stronghold, his deliverer, shield, refuge and the One who subdues. There are ten descriptions that David provides as he worships God. That is a tidy bundle for sure! Do you sense an assurance of security and peace that the Psalmist has while focusing on these attributes of God. I would go so far as to say he was overwhelmed by God’s goodness, power and glory. Are you, are we? Is the Lord all this to you, and more?
David is so humbled by what he sees in God. And then he asks this. “Oh Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him” (vs. 3)? It’s almost disbelief that God loves him, us, this much. We are precious to him. David was addressing life’s battles and who God was to him. Trials come every day. What we believe about the Lord makes all the difference in how we face them. I’ll close with this. “Every bundle of trials come wrapped in sufficient grace!’ Meditate on that for a moment.
Verses 1 and 2 clearly describe that sufficient grace. Hallelujah! Do I have an AMEN?