Psalm 87

Home in the City of God

Psalm 87 celebrates a city founded, loved, and made glorious by God. Its foundation is not human strength but His presence. What is most surprising is the list of its citizens—Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—former enemies now welcomed as belonging to Zion. It is a vision of grace where the unlikely and the opposed are given a new identity. The church today shares in this glory, not because of perfection, but because God dwells within. Citizenship is God’s gift, not our achievement, and in Christ even enemies are made family. This psalm invites us to rejoice in a kingdom where grace makes strangers into citizens and all our springs are found in Him.