Psalm 146
Reading this psalm today, with all that happened last year, the prime minister's speech this week (January 2017) and yesterday's inauguration of the new president of the USA, it would be far too easy to let rip - perhaps later?
So I'm going to try to be positive and try and read the psalm for what it says and what it says to me.
Praise the LORD (literal translation of the word Hallelujah)
Praise the LORD my soul.
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes,
In human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground.
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them
he remains faithful for ever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
the LORD sets prisoners free, the LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down.
The LORD loves the righteuous.
The LORD watches over the foreigner, and sustains the fatherless and the widow.
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD reigns for ever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD.
I think that I will let the psalm speak - better to trust in God eh?
I mean I hope and pray for the leaders of the nations - however they go the job.
I hope and pray that they will work for peace and the best interests of their countries, peoples and work together to leave office with the world in a better state than when they took office.
You know what? I think God is probably the only supreme being who is capable of pulling that one off!
Reading this psalm today, with all that happened last year, the prime minister's speech this week (January 2017) and yesterday's inauguration of the new president of the USA, it would be far too easy to let rip - perhaps later?
So I'm going to try to be positive and try and read the psalm for what it says and what it says to me.
Praise the LORD (literal translation of the word Hallelujah)
Praise the LORD my soul.
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes,
In human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground.
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them
he remains faithful for ever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
the LORD sets prisoners free, the LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down.
The LORD loves the righteuous.
The LORD watches over the foreigner, and sustains the fatherless and the widow.
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD reigns for ever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD.
I think that I will let the psalm speak - better to trust in God eh?
I mean I hope and pray for the leaders of the nations - however they go the job.
I hope and pray that they will work for peace and the best interests of their countries, peoples and work together to leave office with the world in a better state than when they took office.
You know what? I think God is probably the only supreme being who is capable of pulling that one off!
