Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 1-9.

I love today’s psalms, even though they do not exactly have a theme (which makes it hard to find something write that covers all of them).  Nevertheless, I have some thoughts about what I want to write.  Our first psalm perfectly starts the entire Book of Psalms when it tells us that blessed is the one who delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night.  While I believe the psalmist was almost certainly referring to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible), and more specifically the laws contained in Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, I also believe that we can substitute Scripture for “law of the Lord” in that thought.  So, blessed is the one who delights in Scripture and meditates on it.  Then in the second psalm the psalmist warns rulers to serve God with fear, after stating that most of them revolt against God and pay the price for doing so.  From there he goes on (I am assuming that all of these psalms were written by the same person, although that may not be the case) to tell us that those who seek shelter by God will be blessed.  God will shelter those who turn to Him.  If we call out to God, He will deliver us because His love never fails. Let us give praise to God for His righteousness and thank Him for what He has done, and will do, for us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.