The Church
Today's devotional is from Your Life Matters: Daily Reflections from the Psalms
"For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory" - Psalm 149:4.
If you are like me, you read the "people" in this verse to mean individuals like you and me. Yet the context is not singular, but rather plural. God delights in His people and those people today are His church for which Jesus paid the supreme price to create. The Church is described in Revelation 21:2: "I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."
This begs the questions: Are you involved in a local church? Are you utilizing your gifts to help edify her people and reach new converts? Do you speak well of God's church or do you highlight its imperfections without contributing to its success? While you as an individual are special to God, the corporate church is where God's heart is and you need to be involved in what matters to God.