This week’s Song To Live By is Psalm 27

Zac writes:

We are in a culture of anxiety and hurry. Fear often seems to surround us from every angle. The world's remedy is to be your own god, to just be stronger or more resilient. Well, I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that it doesn’t work. Any answer the world gives is insufficient and at best just a distraction from reality.

How wonderful and refreshing are the Psalms to those who seek to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of their life. I don’t have to pretend or find some inner strength, for it’s the Lord who is my light, the Lord who is my salvation. I don’t have to hide myself behind the pursuit of financial security or great achievements, because it’s the Lord who is my stronghold.

How I long to return to the fundamentals of faith. To encounter God and glorify Him in the midst of every emotion and circumstance.

If you are seeking to have your worship and prayer life formed and shaped by the Psalms, allow them to read you. Allow yourself to get stuck on one Psalm and have it on repeat. Memorise a Psalm, not out of religion or striving but to get it into your system, that if you were cut open, the psalms would spill out of you. If all in your life were to fall away in a moment, that the words you speak would be saturated and fermented in the real, honest, uncircumstantial cry of praise to the Lord who is always good.

Remain confident that you will see the goodness of the Lord. Be strong today and take heart. For in the day of trouble, maybe you are in that day right now, he will keep you safe in his dwelling and hide you in the shelter of his presence.

A Prayer

Pray this with me. Lord, you are my light and salvation. I repent of where I have tried to take things into my own hands and acknowledge that you alone are God. However many things I’ve asked, I return to this one thing. This only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on your beauty and worship you with a sacrifice of praise.