I’ve been heavily in the Psalms and Proverbs this week.
It began last weekend with a series of seemingly God-prompted thoughts and some snippets of a certain Psalm that entered my mind.
Continuing in prayerful thoughts and contemplations, one Psalm seemed to lead into another that somehow came to my attention through various means.
By Tuesday evening, I began listening on Audible to the entire collection of Psalms from the beginning, on into Proverbs.
Then, starting it again.
And again.
And again, and again, and again until I felt saturated with various words.
Saturated with various themes.
Saturated with various confessions, prayers, praises and wise counsel.
To hear it all read aloud in sequence while going about my work, and then starting again, and even ending up listening as I drift off to sleep, has been a good experience for me. Countless hours, and I don’t feel I’m done with this yet.
How might one summarize the richness of imagery and the seeming balancing act one finds themselves engulfed in as they listen intently for God’s still, small voice in matters both great and small.
Oh there is just so much.
It is both a great weight and a freeing safety to abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
As I listen to the many, many, many words of all sorts…my ears listen for all the contrasts.
The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked
Psalm 1 (ESV)
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
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