Read Psalms 25-27
Show me how you work, God;
School me in your ways. Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth.
You are my Savior, aren’t you? Psalm 25:4-5
Examine me, God, from head
to foot, order your battery of tests. Make sure I’m fit inside and out So I
never lose sight of your love, But keep in step with you, never missing a beat. Psalm 26:2-3
I’m asking God for one
thing, only one thing: To live, dwell, in God’s house my whole life long. I’ll contemplate God’s beauty; I’ll study at
God’s feet. That’s the only quiet, secure place in a noisy world, The perfect
getaway, far from the buzz of traffic. Psalm 27:4-5
One of the ways to engage the
triplet of Psalms each day is to find ONE verse from each psalm and sit with
it. To let that verse sing to your soul
and see how your soul joins in the chorus.
I also love laying a verse from each of the three Psalms for the day
alongside each other to watch them interact or argue or dance with each other. I call this “Scriptural Chemistry”. Just like baking soda and vinegar and red dye
are used to make a volcanic eruption in a science fair, so too letting
scripture verses dance/play/pray/ and interact can do things in us and through
us beyond words.
Above are the three selections
from the Psalms today that sang to my soul.
You don’t have to go with my choices.
Maybe you liked the 6th verses or thought the truth was in
the first verse of each. Great! Find the verses that sing to you. Maybe you didn’t like any of
the verses in Psalm 26, and you can’t believe the editors included that
Psalm in the 150!?! The mystery of the Psalms
(and this goes from hymns too, is that you can return to them time and time
again because each time you are different and so a different
verse might just sneak up on your soul unaware). Your soul might think tomorrow, “Oh I love
that 4th verse of Psalm 25, only to be struck by verse 8 (God is
fair and just) tomorrow because of something that happens today. So, hold these words, let them work and
wiggle in your heart and life. Take them
with you. Pray these words at red lights
out in traffic and before you go into a meeting with that person or
before a doctor’s appointment. The
Psalms are meant to be wisdom to go with you, truth that travels
and guides you through your day. May
whatever verse or verses you find in this triplet of Psalms today, may these
words we read awaken your awareness of God activity your one precious and wild
life. Amen.
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