Psalm 22:1-10 At the outset of this journey through the Psalms, there were only five that I could call by number where I knew something of their content. Psalm 22 is one of those five – this one because of prophecy fulfilled with Jesus’ death on the cross. Today we see two of those prophecies/words …
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January 28 / Psalm 21:8-13
Psalm 21:8-13 I have never been someone who embraced the Psalms lovingly. Today’s reading is one of those for which I can not easily relate. Verses 7 and 13 are meaningful – powerful even! But the rest of it, hard to relate to… I’m hoping some of the rest of you can weigh in more …
January 27 / Psalm 21:1-7
Psalm 21:1-7 You have given him his heart’s desire, and You have not withheld the request of his lips. For You meet him with the blessings of good things… (vv. 2-3a) I’ve never really had much “heart’s desire” in my life; the one thing that I had always hoped for when I was younger was …
January 26 / Psalm 20
Psalm 20 Posting from the Louisville airport on our way to Costa Rica – please pray for our travel safety and enjoyment. For today’s Psalm, two of my study Bibles talked about David going to war, with the “you” pronouns in the first five verses related to peoples’ prayers for him. Then the next four …
January 25 / Psalm 19:7-14
Psalm 19:7-14 Whether we’ve read it or not, we’ve heard verse 14 countless times when a preacher begins his sermon: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. It’s also quite likely that the first few verses in today’s …
January 24 / Psalm 19:1-6
Psalm 19:1-6 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. (v. 4a) I’ve read these words many times – actually, surprisingly in each of the past two years! Paul quotes this verse verbatim in Romans 10:18. In the Psalm David applies these words to the heavens …
January 23 / Psalm 18:46-50
Psalm 18:46-50 The LORD lives… (v. 1a) The very beginning of today’s verses struck me. The Lord does, indeed, live – among us, within us. Where would we be without Him being! The Lord spoke to Moses at the burning bush and told him that His name was “I AM”. At Freedom Road a couple …
January 22 / Psalm 18:37-45
Psalm 18:37-45 We have a term in our vernacular, the “presidential plural”, where a single speaker says “we” instead of “I” when speaking to an audience. It seems less boastful to say that a team has accomplished an activity rather than just one person doing the work. In today’s reading we see just the opposite. …
January 21 / Psalm 18:25-36
Psalm 18:25-36 Yesterday I noted that today David is moving from a focus on himself to bring in the rest of us. We see that particularly in today’s first three verses, almost an aside from the flow of the Psalm. Then the next nine verses, if we can stay with the “us” joining David in …
January 20 / Psalm 18:16-24
Psalm 18:16-24 As we follow the whole of Psalm 18 and not just the verses that are on our reading schedule we see that our reading yesterday was all about David’s enemies and their activities (not to be taken literally), then today’s verses are about David, himself, and tomorrow’s reading will focus on others – …