Psalms Reading – 5.21.2022
Psalms in Review
As we have journeyed through the Psalms for nearly 5 months, what have you learned about God?
About yourself?
About our faith in general?
About what we are to do?
Are there any learnings that have surprised you?
Do you sense you have grown closer to Jesus and have become a man or a woman after the heart of God?
I have enjoyed the discipline of reading and writing about each psalm. It has slowed me down so that I would not rush through them but would take the time to consider the various messages each psalm offers. I have enjoyed seeing how some of the Psalms have been intentionally structured to give us a center point to alert us to the main point.
I have appreciated the richness of God’s description. I love the contrast of God being exalted on high over all of creation and yet stooping down to lift up the poor and needy which we all have been at one time or another.
I love that King David described himself on many occasions as poor and needy. I am choosing to describe myself to God as I know I need the help of heaven each and every day to be faithful and to serve well.
I have been surprised to see the number of times the Psalms have spoken about giving praise and witness to God so that all the nations, all the people of the world, will have opportunity to know and worship the one true God. I did not realize how many of the Psalms were filled with an evangelistic message.
Many of the Psalms have given me the words to pray when I did not have the words to say.
The Psalms are more than documents to be studied but to be used in our personal and community worship to express our praise, to confess our sin, to lament our situation, and to ask God to bring about His never-failing love and holy justice to the world.
Memory Verse: Psalm 147:3, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Question(s) to Consider: What will you do to keep up the pursuit of becoming a man or a woman after the heart of God?