“Drink deeply from this stream that flows from the well of Scripture, that the Lord might make you more like Christ.”
In Worshiping on the Way, Pastor Jonathan Cruse explains how the Psalms of Ascents (Psalms 120–134), sung by Hebrew pilgrims making their journey up to Jerusalem, are divinely adept to cultivate desire and maintain determination for the things of God. And this was not just for Old Testament saints.
These same songs give the Christian church a glimpse of our heavenly Jerusalem and pull our hearts and our affections in that direction. See how these psalms can spur corporate worship during our earthly pilgrimage in anticipation of our worship in the heavenly Mount Zion. As Cruse reminds us, “This is where we must regularly find ourselves until the day we lay our burdens down, having made it the whole way up.”
