Psalm 118 opens and closes w/ a call to “give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!” God’s committed love for his people is clearly seen in this glad song. It may very well reflect the testimony of the nation of Israel in her deliverance from bondage in… Read More »
Psalm 117 issues another CALL to “Praise the LORD,” but this time the call goes out to “all nations” or “Gentiles” (KJV, NKJV) and “all peoples” (1). From Israel’s perspective, this might be a bit shocking, because the nations who surrounded little Israel were often quite hostile to her, when they were not subdued by… Read More »
If there’s one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has confronted us with it’s death. Over 200,000 people worldwide have died so far. But if you check the statistics, nearly that many people die EVERY DAY worldwide from all kinds of causes. Is it morbid to quip, “The death rate for humans is 100%”? I don’t think… Read More »
Today’s psalm reading challenges me with three questions: (1) To whom do I want the credit to go in and for my life? (2) How can I answer the skeptics/critics who wonder about God’s whereabouts? (3) How much am I like the idols I have made and trust in? I find the answers to these… Read More »
Things are never the same when God shows up. Israel experienced this, when the covenant-keeping God of Jacob showed up after 400 long & bitter years. What changed when Israel, the house/family of Jacob, “went out from Egypt … from a people of strange language”? (1) The people of God became God’s dwelling place (sanctuary)… Read More »
For the third day in a row, I am greeted w/ a call to “Praise the LORD!” This is fitting for “servants of Yahweh” to praise, praise, praise Yahweh’s name – his character & attributes (1). Everything about him is worthy of praise. The psalm easily outlines into The Call to Praise (1-3) and The… Read More »
Psalm 112 greets me like the one before it – with Hallelujah! “Praise Yahweh!” It also reminds me how “blessed is the man who fears the LORD [and] greatly delights in his commandments” (1). This reminds me of Psalm 1:2 that says the blessed person’s delight is in the law of the Lord and in… Read More »
Psalm 111 greeted me today with a “Hallelujah!” (Praise the LORD!) and the intentional commitment to give thanks publicly to Yahweh “with my whole heart” (1). Thanksgiving is indeed the antidote to grumbling and complaining and feeling sorry for myself. To commit to giving God thanks is only fitting because “great are the works of… Read More »
Psalm 110 is one of the “royal psalms” and is one of the most quoted psalms in the New Testament. In the gospels, Jesus used this psalm to declare both his humanity as the Son of David, the Messiah, and his deity as David’s Lord (Matthew 22:41-45). The New Testament clearly presents Jesus as both… Read More »
When I was a child, I used to parrot the rhyme: “Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!” But even then I knew that was a bald-faced lie, even as I tried to remain stoical & unmoved by my classmates’ teasing. Words DO hurt, and that hurt can go… Read More »
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