Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 1-9.

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I am not sure how this is going to go.  I am going to try writing about each of the nine psalms in today’s passage.  If we delight in God’s law and meditate on His word as we should we will not allow the wicked to guide our actions nor spend our time with sinners and scoffers.  Instead we will be busy doing the Lord’s work, producing the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  The wicked on the other hand will be blown aside when God’s judgement comes like chaff before the wind.

The second psalm warns about rebelling against God.  The peoples of this world form their governments and think that they can silence God’s Word and stop God’s plan by joining together.  They think they have been bound by Christianity and can free themselves from God’s “tyranny” by outlawing Christian practices.  God laughs at their plans.  He has decreed that Christ rules the world and He will break those who turn against Him.  The wise ruler encourages the worship of God and fears Him.  That fear will lead to rejoicing, but those nations whose rulers rebel against God will fall.

In the third psalm, David expresses his feelings of isolation, that the world is against him.  Despite his enemies saying that God will not save him, David put his trust in God.  David’s enemies did not believe that God would intervene in the affairs of this world.  Thus they were sure that they would win because they had “stacked the deck” against David.  David put his trust in God and gave credit to God for his victory over his enemies…even before he had victory.  The fourth psalm continues the theme of calling on God when in distress.  If we remain faithful to God, all our enemies will have to use against us will be vain words and lies.  We must be careful not to allow our anger, justified or not, to lead us into sin.  If we put our trust in God in our distress, God will cause us to dwell in safety.  In the fifth psalm, David reminds us that God will not allow evil into His presence, nor can those who boast come into His courts. He wants nothing to do with the bloodthirsty or the deceitful.  God’s steadfast love will guide us into His righteousness and make us to bow down to Him.  If we turn to God for protection against our enemies and the tragedies of life, He will give us righteousness and joy.

Psalm six tells us that God will hear our pleas and accept our prayers when we turn our backs on evil doers.  The seventh psalm tells us that if we do not repent of our sins, God will bring deadly force against us, that force will be the results of our own actions.  If we do not turn from evil and accept the righteousness which God offers us, we will be digging pits into which we ourselves will fall.  So, let us accept God’s righteousness and praise His name.

Psalm eight praises God’s name and shows us how majestic and glorious He is.  God is a mighty craftsman who has made the entire universe: the stars in the sky and the moon above.  Despite how small we are in this great universe of His, God cares for each and every member of mankind.  He has given us dominion over the earth and all that is on it.  Let us use that dominion to serve Him.  Finally, in the ninth psalm, David gives thanks to God for all that He has done.  Men will not prevail in crushing God’s word.  Let us join David in telling the world what God has done for us, but not just what He has done for us.  Let us tell them of all the wonderful things which God has done.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.