God’s joy and delight in the amazing diversity of the people he himself created has been on my mind all week as we prepare for Sunday’s worship service at Calvary (sermon title: “Race, Cross, and the Christian”).

So, it was with great joy that I came up to Psalm 67 in my daily reading of the Psalms this morning. Pray this with me would you? For, while not explicit in this song, I believe it is implicit that without all the nations praising God, providing the full praise that God is due, that he is worthy of, is incomplete.

Feel the weight and joy of God in ALL nations - which means all peoples - praising him one day:

      TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A PSALM. A SONG.

      May God be gracious to us and bless us
        and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
    that your way may be known on earth,
        your saving power among all nations.
    Let the peoples praise you, O God;
        let all the peoples praise you!

      Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
        for you judge the peoples with equity
        and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
    Let the peoples praise you, O God;
        let all the peoples praise you!

      The earth has yielded its increase;
        God, our God, shall bless us.
    God shall bless us;
        let all the ends of the earth fear him!