“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” Or, “my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe." The writer of Psalm 45 had no need of conjuring up a blessing for the royal wedding, …
Category: Psalms
Meditations in Psalm 45: Part 2
In Psalm 45, a wedding scene between a King (Jesus) and a Queen (the Church) is composed in a song. The Psalm, like a dream that floats like Pontormo's colorful "Deposition", describes the inner beauty of the entire wedding scene: the bridegroom, the Bride, the participants, and even the music floating from the "ivory palaces". …
Meditations in Psalm 45: Part 1
In Psalm 49:9, the Church is described as standing at the right hand of Jesus in the most beautiful and costly garments. This shows the readiness of The Bride of Christ at Jesus’ Second Coming and her refinement in all of it’s fulness (Revelation 3:18, 1 Peter 1:7). The image is of a bride who …
Psalm 119
Psalm 119 is among my favorite psalms, (or prayers). Line upon line, it brings blessing upon blessing to the soul by pulling it into a hunger for God's Word and ways . For there is a promise (Hebrews 11:6): "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled." -Sermon on …
Psalm 16
"O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; but to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." (Psalm 16:3) Some admire and extend towards the excellency found in those the world deems honorable, famous, …
...and in his temple all cry, “Glory!” 