Psalms for when you…
Feel wronged by another: 10, 52, 109, 137.
Feel safe, blessed: 3, 23, 131, 96, 103, 121.
Feel God's absence: 6, 22, 55, 69, 102.
Are waiting for God: 13, 25, 30, 40, 42, 43, 63, 103.
Are going through hard times: 13, 37, 39, 42.
Suffer, or have suffered abuse: 6, 12, 31, 102.
Find your sin staring you in the face: 6, 32, 38, 51.
Are depressed: 38, 88, 130.
Reading through the Psalms, a few each day, you can easily find many other shades of human experience and prayer.
In this season they are strange gifts--the Psalms. Still, ancient Jewish poets struggling to make sense of their mysterious lives and their mysterious God left them to us as just that, a gift, however strange. Even more strange is the stable with its dirty straw and animal dung, where that same God placed his son in a feedbox swaddled in a Father's care.
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