JUNE 5 PSALMS 25 - 30

June 5 BIBLE BLOG

Psalms 25-30

Psalm 25 is David’s humble (v. 9) and poignant prayer for God’s counsel and leadership. It’s an excellent psalm to pray as your own. In it, we express our faith (v. 1), confess our sins (vv. 7, 18), cry out for mercy (vv. 6, 16), and seek God’s guidance and care.  

Psalm 26 is David’s plea for vindication and a promise of continued faithfulness; we can pray this psalm best when we are suffering for doing right.

Psalm 27 is one of my very favorite psalms. The glorious statements of faith at the beginning (vv. 1-3) and the end (vv. 13-14) are built upon David’s single-mindedness. He was, after all, a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). He shows his heart in the verses in between. I especially love the verse that begins, “One thing have I asked of the Lord…” What would your “one thing” be?

Psalm 28 is another of David’s beautiful cries for mercy. Notice how he moves from fear to faith and from a cry for help to a confession of God’s saving grace!

Psalm 29 is David’s call to extol the Lord. I imagine the setting of this psalm to be a particularly violent thunderstorm: The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders! (v. 3a). I remember another trip to the Boundary Waters when we faced such vicious weather. Just a few hundred yards from where we camped one night, straight-line winds leveled trees; The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars (v. 5a) and strips the forests bare (v. 9). During the storm that night, we felt the voice of the Lord shake the wilderness (v. 8). When we got up the next morning, one tree in our own campsite fell within inches of our campsite. We thanked the Lord for His protection!

Psalm 30 is a song David wrote for the dedication of the temple. Remember: he wouldn’t be there, so he must have written it for Solomon to use. Strangely, the psalm seems to have little to do with the temple and everything to do with God’s sovereign grace, working good from bad all the days of our lives. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes in the morning (v. 5b); You have turned my mourning into dancing (v. 11)! Maybe the temple connection is in David’s initial disappointment when God said NOT to build it and the subsequent joy when God renewed the COVENANT with him (2 Samuel 7). 

Your brother in the Word,
Pastor Gary