"Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession." Psalm 2:8If you could ask God for one thing, what would it be? Would it be money? Power? Wealth? There have been many people who have treated God like a genie in a lamp. They expect for Him to grant their wildest wishes and get mad when he seemingly doesn't respond.But what if there was something God...  Read More

"I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you." Psalm 2:7The Bible is really a story about family. Jesus made that abundantly clear when he encouraged his disciples to pray, "our Father, who art in heaven..." The message was clear. God is a father. And not just that he is a father, but that we are his children. We are sons and daughters of the king.Thi...  Read More

Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” Psalm 2:5-6After the nations have joined together and plotted against the Lord, you would expect for the Lord to respond in fury. He does. The interesting thing about this passage is it goes back to the power of God's word. God doesn't raise up an army or send a pla...  Read More

"He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision." Psalm 2:4There is an old saying that laughter is the best medicine and scientifically speaking, there is some truth to that. It seems that laughter releases immune cells to help heal certain ailments in your body. Laughter also releases endorphins which fight stress and depression.For many of us we don't associate laughing with ...  Read More

"Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” - Psalm 2:1-3We live in confusing times. One of the most confusing things to some people has been the quick decent into evil and madness. The world l...  Read More

"For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish." - Psalm 1:6Have you ever been looking for a particular place and gotten really lost? What did you do? Did you stop and ask for directions? Did you pull out your map and retrace your steps? How did you feel being that lost?Many of us have experienced being completely lost and the feeling is unnerving. There is a p...  Read More

"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;" Psalm 1:5The Psalmist spends the first part of the Psalm comparing two men, a righteous one and a wicked one. The comparison is stark. One way leads to life, the other to death. All men face this choice, either to trust in the Lord for their salvation or to walk a path that leads to death.The P...  Read More

"The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away." - Psalm 1:4Bob Dylan sang a song many years ago and asked a multitude of questions, like how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? Dylan says the answer to life's questions was blowing in the wind. He evidently realized these were questions that you may ask and never get an answer.In the Bible, we see l...  Read More

"He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers." Psalm 1:3Imagine that you were trying to plant something in a desert. Where would you go to start a garden? You most certainly wouldn't do that on top of a sand dune. No, you would look for a reliable water source. In order for plants to thrive, you m...  Read More

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night." - Psalm 1:2There are many things that can bring us delight in this life. There are many things that can bring us joy. The law of the Lord is one of those things, although many of us have never looked at the law in this manner. Too often when we look at the law, all we see is a list of rules that we have to foll...  Read More

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;" - Psalm 1:1Throughout the Bible we find the analogy that life is a journey and where you walk matters. Jesus would tell his disciples that they needed to enter into the kingdom by walking the narrow road. There are many times where we believe that we need to worry ab...  Read More