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Hey, this is a year in the Bible with daily grace. Shelby and Paul here. Subscribe or follow wherever you're listening or watching. We'd love for you to spend the rest of the year with us, which we're approaching here, the halfway point, which is really, really exciting. Okay, Paul, today we're in Psalms 26 through 30. Where do we want to focus in our episode today?
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Yeah, so I'd love to highlight Psalms 27 and 30 for us. So Psalm 27 is what you might call kind of a psalm of confidence from David, where he's essentially expressing confidence in God. So he says, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? And if you think about David's life, he's someone that was pursued by Saul. He faced all kinds of enemies, had familial conflict, all kinds of crazy situations, and yet he's capable of praying a prayer like this of complete confidence in God. And I think that just begs the question, how? Like, how could that be possible? And I think we get the answer here in verse four, which says, I have asked one thing from the Lord. It is what I desire to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord and seeking him in his temple. So David's a king and the leader of an army. And so you'd think that it might be military power or his throne that gives him confidence. And, you know, he might ask God to kind of empower his men or give him tactical discernment, but instead, he simply asks for God's presence, which might be surprising, but it really challenges me when I think about what are the things in my life that give me confidence? Is it my skills that God's given me? Is it the people that I have around me, the relationships I have? Or is it God himself? Right. And it's not just David's circumstance of, you know, needing deliverance that draws him to God. It's also at the end of verse four, he says he longs to gaze on the beauty of the Lord. And, you know, at daily grace, we talk about the beauty of Jesus and the truth of Scripture. And so asking God to reveal his beauty to us, I think is a really valid prayer to ask the Lord to show that to us. Us. And so it really just asks this psalm as a whole. It just invites me to ask, where is my confidence? Do I long for God in the way that David did? And what are the things that I Might need to change to make that more of a priority, make longing for him more of a priority in my life.
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Yeah, absolutely. Psalm 27 also is going to be part of my takeaway from today. Definitely a moving and challenging psalm. Okay. I know you said you also want to talk about Psalm 30. So what's happening in that psalm, and what should we take away from it?
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Yeah. Yeah. So psalm is. Psalm 30 is a typical praise psalm. So it's lifting God up and praising him for what he's done. Written by David as well. And I want to point us to a specific set of verses here, which are verses 6 and 7, which say, when I was secure, I said, I will not be shaken. Lord, when you showed me your favor, you made me stand like a strong mountain. When you hid your face, I was terrified. And that exactly describes us, or describes me at least so often. Where when things are good, when things are secure, it's easy for me to trust God. It's easy to say, I'll never be shaken, and I feel strong like a mountain. But then when things get hard, life happens. I sometimes question, you know, has God left me? Is he still here? But God hears us in every moment, even in those moments of lament and distress. And I love verse 11 where it describes him turning our lamenting into dancing. And this, honestly reminds me kind of a psalm of. Not a psalm, a passage in 2nd Corinthians 12 where Paul is talking about having a thorn in the flesh that's ailing him. He asks God to remove that thorn over and over and over again. But God never does. And Jesus responds to him and says, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. And it just shows me that God is glorified when our distress and our struggles in life get turned into dancing, when his grace is able to be put on a stage, so to speak, the stage of our weakness, specifically, that we are weak. He is more glorified through that. And so it invites me to reevaluate my suffering, to reevaluate even my sin, to say, hey, God is actually being glorified by this, showing that he is capable of overcoming even the harshest and most difficult circumstances and even the darkest of my sin.
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Yeah. And I need that reminder so often because when I experience discomfort or suffering or pain, you know, my first thought is often, how do I get out of this as quickly as I possibly can? But having that shift in perspective to say, what might God be doing through this? And how might this be? Displaying his grace is a total shift. You know, I think that my, my takeaway from this is also from Psalm 27, although I'm gonna take a little bit of a different angle on it. That first verse said, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom should I fear? And so you talked about God being our confidence. I just wanna kind of settle on that. Like we can be confident in the Lord and that can be an anecdote to fear. I know many people struggle with fear and it can be for a variety of circumstances, but the Lord's presence being a place where we can go, where we can find confidence and peace in the midst of fear. An amazing truth. And so I took that away from today's Psalms. And thanks, Paul, for walking us through those. They're going to be in Psalms 31 through 35 tomorrow as we continue to make our way through this book.
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