Do me a favor and please read Psalm 61. For many, if not most of us, we take comfort and joy in knowing that there is no place we cannot go that would bring us OUT of God’s presence. If I were to climb the highest mountain or swim into the deepest of caverns, I simply cannot get away from God’s presence, love, and knowledge. … Continue reading Psalm 61: A Hail-Mary Psalm
Do me a favor and please read Psalm 60. In our text today we see that David has given us a teaching psalm based on his military battles over the Syrians at the Valley of Salt (2 Sam 8:13). This psalm simply states that it was “thousands” but we see from 2 Samuel 8:13 that it was 18,000…and David became famous for it. This, to … Continue reading Psalm 60: A Psalm of Providence
Do me a favor and please read Psalm 59. Our psalm today is one that is very similar to psalms 57-58 where there is a request/petition to be delivered from some type of enemy – and while we don’t know WHO the enemy is many speculate that it is some foreign adversary – but again, this is purely speculation. And so really what we need … Continue reading Psalm 59: A Psalm of Protection
Do me a favor and please read Psalm 58. I love the imagery and the “opposite” feeling that we get FROM said imagery. Judges who don’t judge justly (2), wicked from birth (as opposed to the innocence of a child) (3), fangless lions (6), opposite flowing water (7), arrow that are blunt and don’t fly (7) – all of these images are amazingly vivid and … Continue reading Psalm 58: A Psalm of Social Interaction
My mind has kind of been in a haze since I first heard of the massacre in Las Vegas. Many questions swirl around – and all of them are going to land flat. We simply will not know why or how or anything else… and having to explain that to my kids just doesn’t work. While we definitely need to be having the conversation about … Continue reading Lots o’ Love
Do me a favor and please read Psalm 57. Our psalm today matches that with the previous one (you can find my thoughts on Psalm 56 here) in that David has run from Saul and is found to be hiding in a cave…somewhere. He’s tired of running, he’s tired of hiding, he’s tired of having to avoid trap after trap – so David goes to … Continue reading Psalm 57: The Faithfulness of God
