November 17, 2025
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Reading along with us in selections from Psalms and Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalms 86-88 (NIV)
A prayer of David.
1 Hear me, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.……Continue Reading
Life has a lot of things it can throw at us: circumstances we will have to face and how people will treat us. But it is beyond comforting and awesome to have the God of the heavens, of power, of glory, of love and compassion on our side and by our side. How we need to know Him more and have Him in our hearts. It is amazing in fact that He would even be available to us and care to be known by us. That He would even make Himself available to be cried out to. But it is reflective of both our need for Him and His willingness to show Himself and intervene. There is nothing like Him in all the world. He has done great things and is worth of praise, adoration, and fidelity. Oh that we would have and He would give us an undivided heart and we would bask in His great love for us.
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Two main things I take away from these chapters and from Psalms in general is dependance on God, the permission to cry out to Him and the confidence that He will answer. But also we see the rawness that sometimes is found in those cries. Many Psalms, like 88, are true laments, pain, frustration, and even desperation. I love that God is willing to hear even our most desperate cries. That we can “vent” to Him and He listens, imagine the King of the universe giving me time to unload and “have a minute” showing my doubt, anger, frustration and still having the confidence that He is there, He is listening, and He will restore….another great undeserved blessing of serving our amazing God!
Psalms 84-85, Psalms 86-88
These passages led me to research the sons of Korah as I had no idea who they were. I found it interesting that their story is a story of God’s grace and mercy amid the judgement of their father for rebelling against God and Moses and Aaron. From some of the words they wrote in you can interpret what they experienced and how they were spared. God was just in spite of their family’s iniquities, and the sons went on to serve and praise the Lord!
Psalm 27, 78-88; Jeremiah 7; Acts 22
Wow! Psalm 86 really hit home with me. I can see God’s character in the words – how we can trust him completely because of it. He answers our prayers and is forgiving, good, merciful, great, marvelous, faithful, compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in love. I will praise him will all my heart. His love is great towards me. He delivered me from the depths, from the doors of death.