ADVANCED SCHOOL

I found this in "Our Daily Bread" booklet that came in the mail the other day and thought I would post it here as it is indeed about the Psalms.What it means to really have a relationship with God. I pray it blesses you all as it has blessed me since I read it last night.
In His Grace,
Nancy

We tend to compartmentalize our lives.We fill our days with activities such as work, errands, chores, caring for children,and then we try to carve out time for "Spiritual" activities such as church,small groups,personal devotions.
I don't see that separation in the Psalms. Somehow,David and the other poets managed to make God the gravitational center of their lives so that everything was related to God. To them, worship was the central activity in life, not something to get through so other activities could be resumed.The process of letting God in on every detail of life is one we need.
For me, the Psalms have become a step in the process of recognizing God's true place at the center. The psalmists have an urgency ,a desire, and a hunger for God that makes my own look anemic by contrast. They panted for God with their tongues hanging out,as an exhausted deer pants for water(42:1-2).They lay awake at night dreaming of "the beauty of the Lord" (27:4).They would rather spend one day in God's presence than a thousand years elsewhere(84:10). It was "the advanced school of faith" that these poets were enrolled in. Maybe as we read the Psalms,some of it will rub off on us.- Author Philip Yancey
ONE LIFE TO LIVE FOR CHRIST MY LORD,
ONE LIFE TO DO MY PART,
ONE LIFE IN WHICH TO GIVE MY ALL
WITH FERVENCY OF HEART-Brandt

THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE.
PSALM 27:1