The longer we live, the more our disappointments can pile up. Even if we genuinely have faith in God, it’s easy to wonder: if God is so willing and able to help us, why hasn’t He blessed us in certain ways? Or why have different kinds of suffering come into…

“Hurry up and help me!” I suppose none of us are strangers to the sorts of urgent prayers that begin and end this psalm. But the middle verses of the psalm remind us that everyone shouldn’t expect such prayers to be answered. For everyone is not, in fact, on good…

Modern politicians don’t even like to admit they’ve made a mistake. And they make every effort to conceal any personal weakness or suffering from the public. Sometimes the press helps them to do this: no pictures of FDR in a wheelchair were published during his terms in office, and JFK’s…

David was no stranger to the sort of triumphal processions described in this psalm. When he was a commander in the army of King Saul, the women used to sing his praise, in much the same way as verse 11 describes: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten…

So, why do you want to be blessed? Well, that sounds like a stupid question, doesn’t it? Everyone wants to be free of pain, to have everything that we need – and maybe a little bit more. But in these seven verses, the psalmist rocks our self-centered world by giving…

Why do we shout for joy to God? The first part of this psalm reminds us of what we learned yesterday from Psalm 65. We praise God for His great power, especially for the way He has used that power in the salvation and protection of His people (verse 3)….

So, why do we worship God? Well, I suppose the most obvious reason is His power, the fact that He is “girded with might” (verse 6). After all, God is the One Who piled up the largest of mountains. And as the Son of God proved when just a word…

So, did hiding out from COVID-19 for two years make you a little stir crazy? Well, although David didn’t know anything about viruses, corona or otherwise, he knew what it was like to be on the run from his enemies. After all, when he wrote Psalm 63, he was in…

Murder. Tearing people down with lies. Oppression. Robbery. These are the kinds of problems David faced some 3000 years ago, and they are still the subject of too many of our modern headlines. So, what can we do about the rising crime rate? Well, I hope we can all agree…

Many people think that Christianity is simply a religion, a set of rituals to practice and rules to follow, a list of things to do and of other things to leave undone. But today’s psalm provides a helpful corrective to this point of view, for in it David actually does…