Something I love about the Psalms is when they get to do real talk. The first verse of this Psalm has inspired a song many Christians sing as a devotional to the Lord. How they long to worship Him and how He alone is the heart’s one desire. They are beautiful sentiments. Yet the wider […]
Read More Psalm 42 – When The Going Gets ToughThis is an interesting Psalm. Are you comfortable in the light of Jesus advising us to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us, reading a Psalm where the writer is a victim waiting to get well so he can see the comeuppance of those who mocked him while he was sick? While considering […]
Read More Psalm 41 – When You’re Sick And TiredA number of the Psalms have worked on a basis of night to day. The darkness of oppression and opposition turned into the light of deliverance and restoration. This Psalm, however, seems to go the opposite way. The Psalm starts well enough in the warm light of day reflecting on just how good God is. […]
Read More Psalm 40 – Keeping the Light on in the NightTypically, Wednesday is the worst day of the week. No, not Monday, Wednesday. The reason why Wednesday wins the award is because it is in the middle of the week. It’s too far from the weekend gone and too far from the weekend coming. It is slap bang in the middle and so is a […]
Read More Psalm 39 – In The Middle of Going ThroughIt is very rare to come across a song written for the congregation that is about what we do when we find ourselves in times of trouble. By that I am referring to the creative expression in song of times when you are beset on every side by opposing forces. So much is written about […]
Read More Psalm 38 – When I Find Myself In Times Of TroubleThey look to be prospering. They get high positions and wield the power like they are to rule forever. The poor and needy look to be the first to suffer. It’s unfair. It’s not right. It’s upsetting. It’s aggravating. No wonder we are prone to fret, get anxious, worry and that leads to taking matters […]
Read More Psalm 37 – Don’t Worry About A ThingThe Psalmist once more starts off this Psalm with a portrayal of the wicked person that understandably isn’t complimentary. The main focus, however, is to the God of righteousness and steadfast love. It gets me thinking about what steadfast love is all about and why it is so closely linked. It’s around this time that […]
Read More Psalm 36 – About Steadfast Love and RighteousnessWhat is it about some people that makes them unable to express themselves? Whatever it is, reading some Psalms gives voice for the things we often cannot express. This one is a doozy. The Psalmist knows what it is to be put under pressure, what it is to face outright hostility, what it is to […]
Read More Psalm 35 – For Crying Out LoudIt is a beautiful and a profound psalm to exclaim when you’ve just experienced what David experienced. To have gone through that episode and taken that particular course of action and see God come through for him in that way. It’s an amazing Psalm. It reminds me of the word ecstatic. I just imagine David […]
Read More Psalm 34 – Taste, See, Teach to Taste, See …It is an incredibly self-centred world we can live in. The immediacy and urgency of the now in me and the needs that drive me from outside and within can allow perspective to be very small. changes take place that appear to put me at a disadvantage while others who don’t share my beliefs are […]
Read More Psalm 33 – Get Some Perspective
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