Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm, vv. 1-9.

For a video meditation on today’s Psalm created three years ago, Tap here.

This psalm breathes the wisdom of proverbs. Originally, a sweet musical accompaniment softened the hearts of the first listeners to receive these truths. For you as well: let the Holy Spirit fill the silence that weaves itself between the verses, serenading you with a holy inner music that eases the pure teaching of this psalm into your own spirit.

Verse 15 is one of those special places that uplift Jewish belief in the resurrection. God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself. Give thanks to the Lord for the gift of faith that you have, to affirm as true, that which escapes the five senses. Ask the Lord to let you see the essentials in your life beyond the senses, into the perspective of eternity.

What are the areas of your life that you still resist giving over to the Lord? Are there temporal, passing conditions that you have allowed to take away your peace? This psalm will draw you more and more into the serenity of a quiet, winter night in Advent. 

Psalm 49

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Example: My gift of life is priceless v. 7

We continue to follow the Psalms in numerical order.

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