Mar 29, 2020
The artist who crafted Psalm 67 desired the choirmaster with a band of stringed instruments to lead Israel in singing about the ‘way’ of God. This ‘way’ was the desire of God for humanity to know Him and be saved through Him. It was in the calling of Abram that God originally created the Israelite nation who...
Mar 22, 2020
As David was nearing the end of his life, he wrote a song for the younger generation as an overview of what it meant to know and live for God. Because the Jews were surrounded by polytheistic cultures and were one of the only monotheistic people that knew the true God, David based his song in knowing the LORD (Heb. yhwh
Mar 15, 2020
David started his life as a lowly shepherd working for his father then eventually served God as king of the Israelites. Over his lifetime, he faced danger from animals and family to near death from sickness and war (1 Sam. 17:34-36; 2 Sam. 15:13, 14). Despite his afflictions and problems, David opens his song by telling...
Mar 8, 2020
As a nomadic people group, Israel lived in tents for 40 years as they travelled through the desert. After arriving in the Promised Land, many continued this lifestyle as herdsmen. Looking at life as a journey, David asks who was allowed to sojourn (Heb. gûr, ‘to seek refuge as a guest’) in God’s ‘tent’. To...
Mar 1, 2020
David wrote Psalm 8 as a song of praise to the amazingness of God as Creator and Sustainer (Col. 1:16, 17). The knowledge of God as Creator is so pervasive even animals and inanimate objects are pictured as praising God from their existence (Ps. 148:1-5; Rom. 8:18-22; Rev. 5:13). While humans can create things that...