"A Song for a Feast"

PSALMS 81 [To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.]
As well as providing the way, God has made there to be an abundance of what ever we want, as long as we want what He wants. I know you know that Jesus was clear what God would give us, because He was very clear when He said, "give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him." Here in this opening of this Psalm we have that word "Gittith" again. It's been quite a while since it first appeared, like back in Psalms 8; I don't even want to mention how long ago it was, but the Title above that Psalm in my Bible was, "God's Glory and Man's Honour." As you might have guess, the Title above this Psalm is the title of today's post. It's your move, is the basic premise being put forth; God has provided everything we could ever need or ask for, now it's up to use, not only to put those things to use, but to put them to use victoriously.  Matthew Henry starts it out like this, saying, "The worshippers of God are excited to their work, and are taught, by singing this Psalm, to stir up both themselves and one another to it." We should be excited for not only what God has done, but we should be excited for what God is doing, giving Him the glory and expecting Him to work in every perfect way. 'Gittith' is a word that basically means 'a wine press.' To make this point without mentioning that wine does in many ways represent the Holy Spirit, would not only be foolish, but it would totally neglect the way God provides influence and guidance upon our lives. It's like wine produces certain things in peoples lives, sometimes out of control things, if they abuse the use of it; so too, the Holy Spirit will produce certain things in each of our lives, and sometimes, if we let Him use us, there is no controlling what might take place in and around us. That's what is meant by a feast, or in this case, "A Song for a Feast." Not only is it a song of celebration, but motivation, to get us moving in the right direction. As you might recall, three times within the last Psalm there was the term, "Turn us again." Sometimes that is our first move in getting motivated to go in the strength of the Lord...
"Jesus replied, "Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and don't know the power of God. For when the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In this respect they will be like the angels in heaven. But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead -haven't you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' So he is the God of the living, not the dead."" (Matthew 22:29-32) NLT