Sentences with phrase «day psalmist»
Dave — thanks for being a modern day Psalmist!
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At least this is the hope of the psalmist, who is dying of thirst, whose only sustenance has been the salt of his own sorrow: «My tears have been my food day and night.»
Centuries earlier the psalmist and later the writer of II Peter wrote, «Do not be ignorant of this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day» (3:8).
«You formed my inmost parts,» the Psalmist prays, «you knitted me together in my mother's womb... Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them» (Psalm 139:13, 16).
Jewish messianism, because it proposed a purpose to future history, also qualified the old faith of psalmists in the trustworthiness of a God who made each day meaningful on its own terms.
We, too, often take fresh heart because the dawn of another day causes new hope to spring up within us, and we can re-echo the psalmist's words, «Tears may linger at nightfall, but joy comes in the morning.»
Then, when our thinking is done, the psalmist invites us to pray about those days, lifting our total selves to God and asking God to deal with us out of steadfast love.
Abraham is told that Israel's affliction will last for four hundred years; the Psalmist prays: «Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.»
He knew as a Psalmist had written: «If I say, «Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,» even the darkness is not dark to you (0 God); the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.»
(Psalm 73:17 - 19) But deeper than this unsatisfactory solution, this mere postponement of justice to a later day, went the real answer to the psalmist's question.
But in the Psalmist's day, there was no such thing as atheism.
On January 8, the day Richard died, I was praying Psalm 51 and was struck as never before by the psalmist's prayer: «Give me again the joy of your help; with a spirit of fervor sustain me.»