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[This Psalm is also found in 2 Samuel 22] Why is it so easy to talk about the weather? It is because we find a common experience for conversation. So often, we define a day as good or bad by how the weather is. For David, the variety of weather changes only serves to lead him into deeper awareness of the power and strength of the Lord who has protected him from all his enemies—Saul and his army.

Images of safety in the midst of turmoil abound. Picture these same physical settings for yourself, along with David. Security in the Lord’s protection will comfort you. Call upon the Lord and his angels to protect those you love.

Someone once said: “Criticism of the weather is a mild form of blasphemy!” Penetrate to the sun present behind the clouds.

Psalm 18

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Example: It is You who lights my lamp. v. 28

We continue to follow the Psalms in numerical order.

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There are love expressions in this book as clear and beautiful as are its origins obscure. We find examples of similar poetry in cultures surrounding the ancient Hebrews. How did this book, which never mentions God, find its way into the Bible? This answer is simple, enunciated centuries later by St. John in his first letter: “God is love” (4:7–8). All of God’s people, Jewish and Christian, have found this book filled with the intimacy with which God wishes to relate to us.

Jewish people read the Song of Songs in synagogues on the Sabbath during the intermediate days of Passover. It is spring. The earth turns to love. This book will refresh you; it is unique from others in the Bible. There are fifty words in it not found anywhere else in Scripture!

May you be as passionate in your love for Jesus as Jesus’s love is for you.

Song of Songs 1—2

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Example: Enveloped in Your fragrance 1:12

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the season of Easter this year we read Proverbs 11—12 and The Song of Songs.

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