MAY 28, 2024 Psalm 43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! The Hebrew word translated as “vindicate” is shafat, a term typically understood to denote a “judgement.“ It doesn’t necessarily insinuate that a person needs to judged in the sense that a […]
MAY 27, 2024 Psalm 43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! It is unfortunate but true — far too many people work overtime to interrupt and complicate the lives of others. In order to advance their own agenda, they find it necessary […]
MAY 26, 2024 Psalm 42:7-8 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me—a prayer to the God of my life. I’ve heard many people quote this phrase, “Deep calls unto deep,” […]
MAY 25, 2024 Psalm 42:3-4 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy […]
MAY 24, 2024 Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. If we were to boil the entirety of Scripture down to a single concept, in my view, it would be this: God has always wanted a family […]
MAY 23, 2024 Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. As we begin to look at this psalm, which incidentally is the first in Book Two of the Psalms, it is important to point out that it […]
MAY 22, 2024 Psalm 41:10-11 O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. By this I know that You are well pleased with me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. At first glance, it seems as if David prayed that God would raise him up from his […]
MAY 21, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Before moving on to other verses and other issues, there is one other concept embedded within David’s words that is important to address. As we’ve discussed, it is inevitable that believers will be attacked, […]
MAY 20, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. As with many of David’s psalms, not only are they expressions of his heart and the emotions evoked by his circumstances, they are also prophetic, specifically in regard to the Messiah. As David suffered, […]
MAY 19, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. It is one thing to be assailed by an enemy — it is to be expected — but it is another kind of hurt to be betrayed by someone you have trusted in times […]
