Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us Intimacy with God
“He reached down from on high and took hold
of me; he drew me out of deep waters, he
rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my
foes who were too strong for me. They
confronted me in the day of disaster, but the
Lord was my support. He brought me out into
a spacious place; he rescued me because he
delighted in me.”
-Psalm 18
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us Intimacy with God
“Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or
discipline me in your wrath. Your arrows have
pierced me and Your right hand has come
down on me…I am bowed down and brought
very low, all day long I go about mourning.”…
“Lord, do not forsake me, do not be far from
me, my God. Come quickly to help me, my
Lord and my savior.”
-Psalm 38
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us Intimacy with God
“Daughter of Babylon, doomed to
destruction, happy is the one who repays
you according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.”
-Psalm 137
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us intimacy with God
• Instructs Us on How to Pray
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a
steadfast spirit in me. Do not cast me from your
presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and
grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
-Psalm 51:10-12
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us intimacy with God
• Instructs Us on How to Pray
“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a
chorus of praise and prayer that has been
going on for a millenia and across all cultures.”
-NT Wright
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us intimacy with God
• Instructs Us on How to Pray
• Leads Us into the Heart of God
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want. He makes me lie down in green pastures
and he leads me beside quiet waters. Psalm
23:1-2
Why I Love the Psalms
• Teaches Us intimacy with God
• Instructs Us on How to Pray
• Leads Us into the Heart of God
“To the faithful, you show yourself
faithful. To the blameless you show yourself
blameless. To the pure, you show yourself
pure, but to the devious you show yourself
shrewd. You save the humble but bring low
those whose eyes are haughty.”
Psalm 18:25-27
Psalm 1
Blown Away Like Chaff
Under Judgment
Leads to Destruction
Planted by Streams of Water
Bears Fruit
Prospers
Lord Watches over Them
Psalm 1
• Reject Worldly Thinking
• Immerse Yourself in the Bible
– Delight in God’s Word
– Meditate on the Truth