Dignoscentia

Ce este mai minunat decat sa primesti aprobarea Domnului ca ceea ce faci este dupa voia Lui? In iarna lui 2003, chiar inainte de ziua cand urma sa ne casatorim, eu si viitorul meu sot am primit o fagaduinta de la Dumnezeu in care ne asigura ca este cu noi si ca aproba casatoria noastra. [...]

How futile are all of the efforts of people, put together! What this psalm makes clear is that no matter what we do, God’s will prevails in the end. Kings and princes may “plot together against Yahweh and His anointed,” yet God will “break them, shatter them like so many pots.” There is nothing we [...]

The reading of the NJB footnotes proved once again to be insightful! Verse 2 reads: “… and murmurs His law day and night.” The footnotes say about the word “murmurs”: “Reading in an undertone, a meditative prayer… as opposed to the loud cry of the prayer under trial.” This is amazing to me, and it [...]

David rejoices in this psalm because God has helped him in his hour of need. The subtitle in the NJB is “Thanksgiving after mortal danger”. David doesn’t forget to thank God for His help, but I know I do sometimes. While I’m going through something, I pray constantly, I ask for God’s forgiveness, I make [...]

This psalm urges me to make sure that I give God His due: that I respect Him and His commandments. It is meant to intimidate, and if one stops to think about the imagery used here, it is intimidating, and strikingly beautiful. I want to look at some of the images evoked here.
“Yahweh’s voice over [...]

It is interesting to see how this psalm, better called a prayer, is structured. There is the petition at the beginning, the reason for the petition, or the background information, afterwards, and at the end, thanks are given. Note these verses: “I have been helped; my body has recovered its vigour, with all my heart [...]

There are two things I find just amazing about this psalm. One, the unshakeable trust of David in the Lord, and two, his incredible desperation at the thought of God forsaking him.
How awesome it must have been to really have the presence, the shekinah, of God, in the midst of Israel! How awesome it must [...]