Dignoscentia

This psalm is troublesome to me, because it poses a difficult question for Christians. Here, a person who is down, possibly David himself, asks God to restore him. The belief at the root of the psalm is: “Yahweh protects him, gives him life and happiness on earth.”
There is no question in my mind that all [...]

The person described here is in physical and mental anguish. He is a sick man, deserted by all, and he fears that he has also been deserted by God. What is he to do, but to pray? He may or may not have been a believer, and he describes what he has done to get [...]

How important it is to confess our sins to God! There are so many blessings to be gained from it! Not only do we gain forgiveness, but we get relief. David writes here of a time when he didn’t confess: “I said not a word, but my bones wasted away from groaning all the day; [...]

You’ve probably heard this before: “once saved, always saved.” Have you ever wondered if it was true? Turns out that John Calvin may have something to do with it. I highly recommend watching this video, entitled “Predestination, Free Will & Security” by Pastor Doug Batchelor. It definitely helps make sense of the issue.

I want to write again about Psalm 18 because the ending verses strike me as very important. I’m not going to reproduce all of them here, but I invite you to read the whole psalm, and to focus in particular on verses 43-50. I find them important because of this: “He saves his king time [...]

Something happened to me yesterday afternoon. It was the culmination of a months-long intrigue, of which I only began to know weeks ago. That’s the trouble I’ve been going through - and mentioned briefly in other entries.
It’s interesting how things turn out sometimes. I sit here and write this entry about Psalm 14, and I [...]

A righteous man cries out for justice in this psalm, and in the end he gets it. I wonder, how many of us are able to say with confidence, like David does in verses 3-5, that injustice has never stained our hands? Oh, I’m not talking about criminal deeds, I’m talking about things like gossping [...]