Enter into Psalm 89 with King David.

Imagine that the Lord has just told you that your son or daughter would be President of the United States, or the founder of a grand global enterprise, or that they’d just gotten a full scholarship to an Ivy League university.

Now imagine God sharing this amazing news, and then putting his guarantee on it—his covenant. That’s what a covenant with God is—a guarantee. Whether we are faithful to our side of the bargain or not, it will happen.

Would you sing? Would you dance for joy? Would you proclaim God’s goodness to all the world?

Would you be forever grateful?

I imagine that when King David heard the words of the prophet Nathan that his heir would be given “his royal throne firm forever,” (2 Samuel 7:16), the psalm we read today must have poured out of his fatherly heart.

Here’s the good news for all of us:

As Christians, by our baptism, we get to share in this covenant with King David. Not just as mere subjects in the Kingdom of God, but as co-heirs to the everlasting throne!

For we hear in 2 Timothy, “If we have died with Him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with Him.” 2 Tim 2: 11-12.

Meditate today on the magnitude of this covenant, on the vastness of God’s generosity, and see what Psalm pours forth from your heart.