Old Testament – Page 22 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Blessed Is the People Whose God Is Yahweh – Psalm 144

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers

At the risk of being too autobiographical, I was here in my illness. The only way

I was sick and miserable to the point of feeling very alone, though I had my precious

There is a strange "delicacy" being offered the righteous by those who would also

Though in one sense Jesus can say we are all evil (Luke 11:13), there are also those

This psalm is an expression of what the apostle John talks about in his first letter,

David knows there are "gods" that are not really God, but spirit beings who pretend

This is a psalm of imprecation. Imprecation means "A curse; the act of invoking

Antiphonal reading is when one group reads one portion and another group answers

This is what we might call a psalm of rehearsal. It is a way of reminding ourselves

The name Yahweh is mentioned five times in this very short psalm. Yahweh is the

John 13:34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you,

God's "temple" had been a tent, the Tabernacle, for many years since the exodus.

One of the things David knew was "too high" for him was that God knew everything

Waiting for God means a couple of things. It means I know that my only answer and