“I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me.” (Ps 3:6) The Psalms were written by people who felt life’s pain cut deep. How hard it must have been to – as a father – flee from your own son. This is what David writes about in Psalm 3. Just listen to his desperate cry: “I have so many enemies, Lord!” (Verse 2). Yet David does something I can certainly learn […]
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“Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?” (Ps 2:1) Fear. Division. Destruction. This is the world we live in. It feels as though Psalm 2 speaks directly to our time. “Why?” we also want to ask. Why don’t we realise it’s not an enemy who wants to destroy us; it’s our fellow human beings? In essence, rebellion against our fellow man is ultimately a rebellion against how God intends humanity to
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“There is no music like God’s music.” This is what the Psalms wish to teach us. Sing! Sing! Sing! The Hebrew word for psalms is “tehillim,” which we translate as “praises”: songs directed to God, about God, and for God. “Worship with accompaniment” is what the Greek word “mizmor” means (from which we derive our word “psalms”). Back then, the king would take up his lyre and sing his prayers to God, or the choir
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