I’m always ready for a message of blessing. This week’s Psalm, Ps 144 (15 verses), is all about blessing from start to finish. The Lord is blessed, and then man–insignificant as he may be–is blessed as well…especially those “whose God is the Lord.”
I’m looking forward to meditating on this idea of blessing as I engage with God through this Psalm this week. Hard to believe that there are just a few weeks left in our two-year reading plan! May He yet have many more blessings in store for us all!
After several weeks of three Psalms each, we slow our pace now–until the very end of our two-year journey (which is coming up in late July)!
This week we have Psalm 132 (18 verses) and Ps 133 (3 verses), continuing our time in the pilgrimage psalms (“Psalms of Ascent”). Psalm 133 is a refrain that is familiar to me personally, painted on the wall of the dining hall in the fraternity house while I was at university. Psalm 132 is once again less familiar to me, but an initial scan intrigues me–as I read about the way that David was afflicted (v.1)–burdened or concerned–about the presence and dwelling of the Lord among His people.
I’m looking forward to being blessed by God through His Word…are you?
After breaking for Holy Week, we resume our reading plan for the final stretch of our two-year journey!
We continue with a trio of short Psalms from the litany of Psalms of Ascent. This week, we look to meet with God in Psalm 123 (4 verses), Ps 124 (8 verses), and Ps 125 (5 verses).
Before even reading these Psalms, I appreciate the truth that with relatively few words, God is happy to hear our hearts–and also to reveal Himself to us. It doesn’t require long-winded oratory on our behalf, nor inscrutable theological treatises on His; rather, we have an approachable God who receives us and reveals Himself in a somewhat surprising economy of words.
2 Years of Psalms 