I have been very encouraged by this Psalm again today and would have liked to play this video at church tomorrow but can't download it so it's here instead. I hope you find it as relaxing and encouraging as I did.
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I read an interesting comment recently about the Psalms. I am pretty sure it was Sue Monk Kidd, although I can't find the reference. She was writing about reading Psalms and the difficulty we find when, in the middle of some truly beautiful piece of worship, the Psalm suddenly breaks into "O how I wish you would slay the wicked". She wrote that one way to let that be a useful part of the Psalm, rather than pretending it isn't there, is to read it as though those 'wicked, deceitful, scheming evil men' are the parts of us that are harder to let his light in to. Then, when we are reading 'If only you would slay the wicked, get away from you blood thirsty men' we are talking of our own darknesses and it makes it possible to remain kneeling before Him. I don't now that you can really claim that as a reliable biblical interpretation, but it helped me.
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I read an interesting comment recently about the Psalms. I am pretty sure it was Sue Monk Kidd, although I can't find the reference.
She was writing about reading Psalms and the difficulty we find when, in the middle of some truly beautiful piece of worship, the Psalm suddenly breaks into "O how I wish you would slay the wicked".
She wrote that one way to let that be a useful part of the Psalm, rather than pretending it isn't there, is to read it as though those 'wicked, deceitful, scheming evil men' are the parts of us that are harder to let his light in to. Then, when we are reading 'If only you would slay the wicked, get away from you blood thirsty men' we are talking of our own darknesses and it makes it possible to remain kneeling before Him.
I don't now that you can really claim that as a reliable biblical interpretation, but it helped me.
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