Tag: Psalms

Digging in Deeper: Psalm 139:13-16

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“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

There are two great truths that come out of this passage.  One of them is deeply personal and has been greatly encouraging to me for many years.  The other is prophetically cultural.  It speaks a word of truth into an area of cultural and political division in our country that is increasingly sharp in its contrast between the two sides. Read the rest…

Morning Musing: Psalm 130:4

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“But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

The fear of the Lord is a poorly understood concept even among His people.  This is quite simply because we think about fear only in a single sense: terror.  To be afraid of something isn’t good.  Thus, while perhaps we should fear the Lord because we’re told to do so over and over and over again in the Scriptures, this isn’t something that ultimately draws us closer to Him.  We fear Him so that we’ll do what He says.  Once we develop the pattern of doing what He says, then we begin to grow closer to Him, at which point we don’t need to fear Him any longer.  The logic here seems just about airtight…and it’s just about completely wrong. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Psalm 127:3

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“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

During the course of his first campaign for President, Barack Obama was asked a question about his thoughts on sex education in schools.  His answer was unintentionally a great deal more revealing than he perhaps wanted of a worldview belief far more common today than it ought to be.  On this particular occasion he was asked whether he supported students being taught an abstinence-only curriculum or preferred one that included lessons on various methods of contraception, including abortion. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Psalm 123:2

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“Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

On what have you placed your eyes?  Our world is like a carnival in the manifold of things for us to look at as we navigate through it.  There are more things to which we can direct our attention than we could possibly count.  What’s more, many of these things are not silent and waiting.  Like a carnival barker they call, no, they demand, our attention. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Psalm 119:140

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“Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.”  (ESV)

I love what this is saying here.  When it comes to the promises of God, we don’t have some beta version of a program that doesn’t yet have all the bugs worked out of it.  We have something that was not only true and reliable from the start because of its source, but something that has also been tested and tried by hundreds of millions of users along the way. Read the rest…