I often think that it is the other person who is to blame and who needs to change, but when I look closer into the word, I realize that the broken face staring back at me from the truth of scripture is no other than my own. Read more
Psalm 12: Silencing the Corrupted Voices
There are many benefits to living in the modern technological world that we do, but every benefit usually has a problem to counter-balance it. One of these benefit-problem balances, as I see it, is the ability to have our voices heard. Never before has anyone been able to enter the […] Read more
Psalm 11: How Can You Say to Me?
I have long thought verse 3’s question, “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” was a righteous one. But as I study this psalm I don’t think it comes from a believing heart, but from a heart that has not placed its trust in God. Furthermore, […] Read more
Psalm 10: The Long Wait
I wonder what the circumstances of the Psalmists life was when he asked “Why, Lord, do you stand off?” But I’m not sure I will ever know. But it is not difficult to understand how, given today’s circumstances, we might ask the same question. Read more
Psalm 10: The Most Difficult Thing
Has it ever seemed that God wasn’t involved in life anymore? Have you ever looked beyond yourself and wondered why there doesn’t seem to be an advocate for the helpless? No justice for the down-trodden? No refuge for the persecuted? Has it ever seemed as though evil people always triumph? […] Read more
Psalm 9: In Praise of What?
I don’t know about you, but for me God’s works often seem trapped on paper and bound in leather. On the pages of Genesis 1 we find the creation of the universe, and in Genesis 8 we find the flood of judgement. The important Abrahamic covenant is found in Genesis […] Read more
Psalm 8: Majesty’s Broken Minstrel
The earth is filled with the unbounded glory of God. Yet, for reasons known only to God, he has made man to be the rulers of his creation AND the ones who sing of his majesty. But how is it possible that sinful fallen creatures such as us could be the ones to sing his praise? Read more
Psalm 8: A Moment of Majesty
As I look back at Psalm 3 through 7 I find them all to be about the psalmist’s problems. Psalm 3 poses the question whether God will protect the psalmist from his enemies. The writer of Psalm 4 wonders when God will bring him comfort. Psalm 5 is a record […] Read more
Psalm 7: My Refuge
When I read the word “refuge,” a picture comes to mind of a strong stone castle standing on a massive rock island. The island is surrounded by a deep dark moat and can only be crossed by means of a drawbridge, which is currently pulled up against the only door […] Read more