Psalm 20 teaches us to trust God rather than human power, such as military might. “Some take pride in chariots, and some...
While we seek to honor God in our work, this does not mean the road will be easy.
Human life is a series of choices, and many of these involve vocation.
All of us suffer from feelings of insecurity, and financial ruin is high on our list of worries. In the second book of the Psalter we see a number of texts that relate...
No matter how great the disaster, God is greater still.
Sometimes the godly have a skewed perspective on how God governs, and this causes them needless anxiety. They think that the righteous...
Book 3 of Psalms contains a great deal of lamentation and complaint. Divine judgment—both positive and negative—comes to the fore in many of the psalms here. Contemplating these psalms gives us a mirror...
Psalm 73 depicts a four-fold journey of temptation and faithfulness, playing it out in the psalmist's work.[1] In the first stage he...
Despite the attention to personal judgment we have seen in Psalm 73, in most of Book 3, it is the nation of...
Although God’s judgment takes the fore in Book 3 of the Psalms, we also find God’s grace. “Be gracious to me, O...
Book 4 of Psalms places the brokenness of the world—including human mortality—in the context of God’s sovereignty. None of us is able to make our own life—let alone the whole world—as it should...
From the beginning, God intended human work as a form of creativity under or alongside God’s own creativity.
The psalms in Book 5 have less of a common theme or setting than those in the other books. However, amidst the diversity of forms and settings, work appears more directly among these...
Psalm 107 relates human economic endeavors to the world of God’s creation. It is worth citing at length. Some went down to...
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Psalm 113 informs us “From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised”...
As Psalm 107 speaks of large-scale economic activity, so Psalms 127 and 128 speak of the household, the basic unit of economic...
The work of marriage, childbearing and caring for parents comes to the fore again in Psalms 127...
Power is essential to most work, and it must be exercised rightly. Psalm 136 lays out the proper use of power by...
The final five psalms each begin with the shout “Praise the Lord!” As our survey of the psalms has shown, work is...
