Day 166 (Psalm 134, 146-150) - Year 8
6/15/20266 min
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[upbeat music] Hey, Bible readers. I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. It's been a while since we had an all Psalms day. Today we launch out with Psalm 134, which is the last of the Psalms of ascent. It's super short. This psalm always gets me excited though because it's the one we read when we arrive in Jerusalem on our trips to Israel. As we stand and look out over the city, I can literally say the last words of that chapter from the same place God's people have been saying those words for 3,000 years, "May the Lord bless you from Zion, He who made heaven and earth." In Psalm 146, the psalmist reminds us not to put our trust in people. This isn't a call to be cynical or suspicious of everyone. It's more along the lines of not expecting people to rescue us or fulfill us. When we place on a human the kind of workload only God can carry, it crushes them and it disappoints us. Verse five says, "Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord." This person who puts their confidence in God, not in what He can do for you or how He can make all your dreams come true, but in God Himself, period, will be blessed. This isn't saying if you hope in God that you'll get all those material blessings you're tempted to try to claim. The word blessed here is often translated happy. So it boils down to this: when we trust God in all things,