Today Dan did an overview touching on some of the different types of Psalms and who we can use them in relating to God and to one another.
Psalms (Dan Kane)
Palmer St. Podcast: Psalms
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Palmer St. Podcast: Psalm 23 (Paul Velazquez)
On Sunday, July 3rd, Paul Velazquez drew our attention to the well-known “Shepherd Psalm.”
A Psalm of Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day we can’t do much better than to consider a psalm like this.
Psalm 100
A Psalm of Thanksgiving.
1 Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
3 Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
5 For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
Knowing How to Calm Down
There are times when our striving over a thing reaches its proper limits. When this happens we need to know how to quietly trust in the Lord. That unanswered prayer, that stressful situation, that massive uncertainty we have in an area that we feel we ought to understand better – all these may be areas we need to deliberately give over to Him.
David understood this and offers his own example to us in a brief psalm. He intentionally calmed and quieted his soul, knowing that some things needed to be placed in God’s hands and left there. There is a beautiful peace and humility involved in this kind of intentional trust.
Psalm 131
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 Lord, my heart is not haughty,
Nor my eyes lofty [or “arrogant”].
Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound [or “difficult”] for me.
2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
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