Simple Songs for Psalms

The Psalms reveal the mind of God

     God has revealed His mind throughout Scripture. In the Psalms, He does so in an unusual and remarkable way, in that the Psalmist is directly in touch with the Spirit, telling us what that experience is like. The Law and the covenants and the history of Israel are objective (which does not mean that they lack all personality), whereas the Psalms are highly subjective (though they presuppose the Law and the covenants).
     One reads in the Psalms how God has changed the Psalmist, what the Psalmist learned, and to a small extent, what agonies and ecstasies he experienced. The last is the final reason that the Psalms must be poetry, for direct contact with the Spirit of God is inexpressible in natural language. (2 Cor. 12:4)
     But to whom does God reveal His mind in this way? David, “a man after God’s own heart.” (1 Sam 13:14) Flawed, sinful, in many ways broken, like us, David was one to whom God opened His mind. And David’s gifts are rendered perfect for conveying the truths and visions to which he was exposed. The Psalms are the utterances and revelations of the Spirit of God, recorded as they reverberated off His creation, the man David.
     Next, The Psalms witness to the Messiah.

 
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        Curator, Christian Quotation of the Day.
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Last updated: 3/6/11

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