Praise from the Grave

Psalms 6:4-5  Return, O Lord, and rescue me.  Save me because of your unfailing love.  For the dead do not remember you.  Who can praise you from the grave?

The Psalmist David has such a way with words.  In the 6th chapter of Psalms, David is praying for mercy.  He sees himself as a sinner and because of that God's anger is upon him.  In verse 4 we see David pleading for God to return and rescue him.  Not only does David ask God to rescue him, but he appeals to God because of God's love.  All of this leads up to verse five.  In verse five, David makes it real.  He tells God, "The dead don't remember who you are...they won't praise you from the grave."  In other words, If there is no way for redemption and forgiveness, then all maen will not have a way to worship past the grave. 

We worship an awesome God.  He does love us very much.  He cannot stand it when we sin though.  That sin automatically signs our death warrant.  But because God loved us, he made a way for us to have a relationship with him.  He came down in the form of a man and paid the ultimate price for my sins.  He died to rescue me and you. The climax to that event though was not the death of Christ Jesus (God in Man)  but it was the resurrection of Christ.  It proved that God has power over death.  Those who repent and believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus will be set free from the bondage of death.   Therefore God has made a way for us to continue to live once our earthly bodies are put in the grave.