Random thoughts on a few Psalms
There have been three thoughts roaming around my mind over the last week in response to the psalms I am reading daily. First, in Psalm 26 vs 3 gives the image of walking with the truth...followed up by the psalmist singing that she does not stand with the foolish in vs. 4. There are two thoughts to these two short verses. To begin, the psalms often echo from verse to verse. Or as a seminary professor once asked, "Why is the psalm repeating itself?" This is a style of poetry in the time of the psalms, where a statement would be made in one verse, then slightly altered, but essentially saying the same thing, in the very next verse. This can be a bit repetitive...it can be a bit redundant (pun totally intended). But sometimes we need to hear something more than once. When the psalm echoes itself, it is trying to shout out, "Pay attention!! This is important!' Which leads me to the second thought, which is that these two verses are actually a reverberatio