No, not new threads, as in clothes! ;-) A new thread. For once again my blogging has fallen by the wayside. On one hand, that is good, that I prioritize others things over this. But on the other, I would like to continue writing and posting. I had a list of things to post and either didn't bother or just didn't get to it.
But I think I will begin a new thread here, and that is to post some thoughts on the psalms. I continue to want to know them better. I have studied them and taught them in the past, but always feel I need to know them more, better. I received two new books on the psalms for Christmas and am reading them each day to go through the psalter this year, so thought maybe I should post a few thoughts here. These will not be exhaustive! Just a few things I've learned . . .
So, Psalms 1 and 2:
If I feel dried out and lifeless, it is because I have failed to drink in the Word of God. (The word translated as "law" in Psalm 1 is the word torah, which is really all the words and instructions of God in His Word.)
The words translated in 1:2 (meditates) and 2:1 (plots) is the same word in the Hebrew. In Psalm 1 it could be translated as murmur, for reading silently is really a modern invention. But what a contrast between those who are refreshed by God and His Word and those who plot against Him. Those who plot against the Lord are seeking freedom (2:3), but true freedom is only found in God and His Word.
"The man" who is blessed (1:1 and 2:12, bracketing these two psalms) is Jesus. And we are, too, when we are in Him.
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