Psalms

Psalm 95 invites us into God’s presence with such joy every time we worship, every time we pray. He is our forgiving Father and He rejoices at our presence.

In Psalm 90, Moses also notices that numbering our days leads to a heart of wisdom. Keeping the span of our life in the perspective of God’s everlasting reign helps ground us in His unchanging truths rather than getting swept up by the cares of the day.

In this psalm, David is crying out to the Lord, and he wants God to answer him quickly! The beautiful thing about the love of our Father is that he hears us no matter what. Just as David came to God, desperate for immediate help, we can come to our Father, too, desperate for his rescuing work in our lives.

It’s okay, when you don’t understand why God is allowing something to happen, to speak to God about it: after all, we’re His children and Fathers want to hear from their children! From the saints and from Psalm 43 we learn that even when God feels distant, He is not distant.

The psalm says the wicked will be blown away like chaff in the wind, but the one rooted in Jesus will remain sure. Through the waters of Baptism, we are firmly planted in the tree of Christ—the cross.

Psalm 96 is big and grandiose. It is filled with flowery, beautiful, poetic language. And yet it calls on us to tell of God’s salvation from day to day, to daily share what God has done for us. God is present in both the big and the small, in the grandiose and in the ordinary.

In Psalm 23, one of the most well-known psalms of our time, David wrote about both the good and the bad things of life. David trusted that God would take care of him, no matter what the circumstances may be.

Circumstances around us can wake us up to realities of problems in our own lives that we might have previously ignored or to which we had previously been blind. God is the one who turns us back to Him and God is the one who turns to us in order to rescue us!