Psalm 89:38-45 Two days ago we saw the psalmist praising God for His creation, for His power, for His righteousness and justice. Then yesterday the psalmist recounted God’s covenant with David: My faithfulness and My steadfast love shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted. (v. 24) But today the …
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August 12 / Psalm 89:19-37
Psalm 89:19-37 So I will establish his descendants forever and his throne as the days of heaven. (v. 29) His descendants shall endure forever… (v. 36a) I see these verses fulfilled in Jesus, with His church as His forever descendants. That’s us, folks!!
August 11 / Psalm 89:1-18
Psalm 89:1-18 We will be reading Psalm 89 for the next four days. The break for each day is intentional, although the third and fourth day could have been combined. Actually though, as you read the entire psalm you can see that Ps 89:1-18 and Ps 89:19-37 almost stand alone as their own psalms. Then …
August 10 / Psalm 88
Psalm 88 A lament – frankly, as lamentable as any lament that we have read. There’s not a shred of hope in any of what the psalmist writes. He calls out to God for help (vv. 1, 2, 9, 13), yet he blames God for his condition (vv. 6-8, 14-16). And unlike any other lament …
August 9 / Psalm 87
Psalm 87 To me there’s not a lot to reflect on in today’s psalm. The psalmist is extolling the glory of Jerusalem and Mount Zion, established/ordained by God Himself. The psalmist pays particular attention to the special “citizenship” of those who were born there – in contrast to those who were born in the other …
August 8 / Psalm 86
Psalm 86 All the nations You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. (v. 9) Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on …
August 7 / Psalm 85
Psalm 85 Today’s Psalm 85 looks to be a psalm of confession, although confession is only implied, not fully stated. And while the psalmist seems to be confessing for the whole nation, it would be a good exercise for us to look at the psalm as a model for individual confession. Here are those elements …
August 6 / Psalm 84
Psalm 84 I am not the Bible memory person that John would like for me/us to be, but there have been quite a few verses in my life for which I can call “chapter and verse”, mostly verbatim. Today’s reading has one of those, one of the earliest in my “list” that I can recall: …
August 5 / Psalm 83
Psalm 83 Where possible I like to put these psalms into their historical settings. Today’s Psalm 83 fits best with II Chronicles 20, where we see Moab, Ammon, and Edom (vv. 6-7) all gathered against Israel, with Assyria mentioned only as an ally (v. 8), not the powerful foe that destroyed the Northern Kingdom. Often …
August 4 / Psalm 82
Psalm 82 At first glance, this is quite confusing, especially depending on the translation you are using. Does verse 1 have “gods” or “rulers”? If “rulers”, we can imagine that the psalmist is speaking of either Israel’s leaders or the leaders in the surrounding nations. If “gods”, we can imagine God calling an assembly in …