I am going to be honest with you guys, I really, really, really like the Psalms.  I find that, in our busy lives, we just kind of skim through the Psalms to get our daily reading done, or to help our kids remember their memory verse, and we just go back to our lives.  No, I don’t like that mentality when thinking about studying the Psalms (much less the Bible!).  What we need to do is to read them and dwell on them.  Chew on them such as we would eat a filet mignon: enjoying every morsel of the fine quality that we get to experience.  These Psalms are a story of wisdom and character; pain and loneliness; God’s heart and man’s.

This is something that we should completely take a time out for.

So for the next couple of weeks, I want to highlight some Psalms that I love, and I want you to talk about them.  Talk about them with your family, your friends, your co-workers, the elders here at ARCOC, the teachers here, and Drew and me.  Tell us what you think, ask us what we think.  Chew on them; enjoy them; dwell on them:

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”  He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.  Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”  I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.  You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”  Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled.   Blessed are all who take refuge in him.     –Psalm 2