Hindi Sabbath School

Waiting on the Lord is an act full of trust and faith, a trust and faith revealed in action. Waiting on the Lord transforms our gloomy evenings with the expectancy of the bright morning.

The Lord wants all the world to join His people in worship. The Lord’s people are identified with the righteous, who worship the Lord and whose hope is in Him and His love.

Zion is represented as God’s living presence among His people. God reigns from Zion and founded His temple in Zion. Thus, Zion is a place of divine blessings and refuge which is interchangeably referred to with Jerusalem and the sanctuary.

The goal of this week’s lesson is to realize that each generation of God’s people plays a small but significant part in the grand historical unfolding of God’s sovereign purposes in the great controversy.

The Psalms testify about Christ’s person and ministry. Almost all aspects of His work in the plan of salvation are seen in the Psalms. In various ways, Christ’s life and work are prefigured and predicted in them, often with remarkable accuracy.

God allows times of testing to let His children’s faithfulness (or unfaithfulness) be clearly revealed. Wisdom for righteous living is gained through the dynamics of life with God amid temptations and challenges.

God’s mercy is everlasting. Before the everlasting God, human life is as transient as grass, but God pities humans and renews their strength, and in Him they have the promise of eternity.

The Lord is long-suffering and holds His wrath in His great forbearance, not wanting anyone to perish. Though God’s proper time for His intervention does not always coincide with human expectations, the day of God’s judgment is coming.

As sin corrupts the world more and more, the earth has increasingly become “a strange land” to God’s people. This reality creates a problem to the psalmist: How does one live a life of faith in a strange land?

God is close to His people and to His creation, both in heaven and on earth. Though He has established His throne in heaven and rides on the clouds, He also is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

He is the Sovereign King over the whole world, and He rules the world with justice and righteousness. His laws and statutes are good and bring life to those who keep them.

The Psalms are prayers and, as such, are invaluable, not only for their theological insight but also for the ways they can enrich and transform our individual and communal prayers.