We today are led by the psalmist to “exalt the Lord our God”, but we do it with the greater knowledge that we are priests to the world—and this is true only because God sent his own Son to become the true and final great high priest, the priest who offered the ultimate sacrifice of his own life.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.