Songs for Our Temple (Week 3: Psalms 7-9)

Psalms 7 This chapter of Psalms deals with issues of injustices that are done towards you. This is a good guidline on how to deal with injustice that has been done towards you. Call of Deliverance Call of Confession Call of Godliness Call to Worship

I love that we can come to God when we feel like people want to rip us apart and know that He is with us and is our deliverer.

Psalms 8 In this chapter, you can break it up into three sections. The glory of God, (8:1-2). The glory of Man, (8:3-8). The Glory of God, (8:9). This whole chapter talks about God’s creation and how man has blessed the responsibility for taking care of what he has created to worship Him. as this past Sunday, we “celebrate” the sanity of life. Do we value it as much as God loves his creation?

Tomorrow as you read Psalms 9, you may notice that it will seem that it should carry on farther when you come to the end of the chapter. The mood changes from one chapter to the next, but commentaries tell that the two can be one.

That’s a great outline, Jim. And I love how “our” glory is sandwiched between God’s glory. As commentators note, it reminds us that our glory is a glory given by God, not something inherent to us. God, in an amazing mystery, treats us in ways we don’t deserve — elevating us and most wonderfully, caring about us (v. 4).

I love how Psalm 9:9 reminds us that God is our stronghold in troubled times and v. 10 follows that up by telling us our God doesn’t forsake us who seek Him.

I think while reading it I found a bit of the true emotions that we as people feel. Praising God, and yet at times a wonder of when he will come and help us through. When he will shake the wrongs away.

Yes, it really does describe that tension and uncertainty, doesn’t it? Sometimes it really helps to exclaim that God is good in those times because it reminds us that He is working when we don’t see it. Other times, it feels like it makes us wonder all the more, “God where are you right now?” (I am glad, as we go through these readings, we see times that’s actually an appropriate cry to place before God.)

Indeed, Tim, just place all the wondering before him and trust that no question is wrong to ask him. Our stories have been written by the greatest author of all

Thinking about worrying, have you ever given someone a task to do something for you and worried if they will full fill it out? Sometimes I think we do that with God. Sometimes I get confused about whether I am worried about what I trust God to do or what He will do with the situation?

Jim, YES! Or I give it to God and shortly thereafter I take it back. Not only because I am impatient or concerned that his answer isn’t coming but also because I am afraid of the answer.

Yes, definitely. Wondering and waiting for an answer is hard, but then it can be terrifying if that answer doesn’t seem like the one we hope for…

So, why do we become frightened of his answer. Is it something that is wrong with our faith? Are all humans afraid of his answer at times? Is that a part of the fallen world that we are part of?

Somehow I missed this along the way. I appreciated the Psalms but something hadn’t clicked in my head until now. That the Psalms are a giant, blazing message to us that our feelings, our emotions of all sorts are sometimes so intense, whether joyfully intense or gutwrenching , my heart is going to fall out intense, that God put them in the Bible. They are there for us, so that we realize that there are times in our lives where it is hard to breathe and that it is ok because he has shown us through the Psalms that it will be this way at times and we will make it through.