Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Restore us, O God of hosts, let your face shine that we may be saved.

Verse 14, not the exact same language, a very similar turn again, O God of hosts,

look down from heaven and see. And then, what I read at the beginning,

the last verse in the song, Restore us, O Lord God of hosts, let your face shine,

that we may be saved. And in that repetition, obviously, whenever we are reading through

Scripture and we see a phrase or a word or a verse, even like we see here, repeated multiple times,

we're getting a pretty clear clue from the Holy Spirit as to the theme of this chapter of what

God is saying in his word at this point and the takeaway that we need in our lives from it.

And the whole picture here in Psalm chapter 80 is a picture of our need for God's face to shine

upon us. Just think about that imagery in this Psalm for the face of God to shine upon us.

What does that mean? Well, obviously, based on the context of this passage, the fact that it says,

let your face shine that we may be saved, that we may be saved, let your face shine, that we may

be saved. It's a picture of God saving his people, of God providing for his people, of God delivering

his people, of God leading his people, of God helping his people. And all of these things are a

picture of God's face shining upon his people. And the thought when you see a Lord God of hosts in

Psalm 80 verse 19, the thought of the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God who created everything in

the world, the omnipotent ruler of the universe, the creator and sustainer of all who commands a

heavenly army, the Lord of hosts, the Lord God of hosts, don't you want his, don't you want his

face shining upon you today, especially knowing that in our sin, we deserve the exact opposite.

We don't deserve salvation. We deserve judgment from the Lord God of hosts. And so to pray,

in a sense what happens at the moment of our salvation, we turn and we say, God, please shine

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