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Mark Hamilton, PhD - Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Old Testament, ACU Graduate School of Theology<\/p><\/div>\n

I thought I’d start a series on the Psalms to augment the discussion on worship.\u00a0 I don’t want it to be 150 posts long because that requires too much of a commitment.\u00a0 So, instead, I’ll just write on the ones that jump out at me.\u00a0 Purely an arbitrary choice, but there it is.\u00a0 They’re all wonderful, and worth hearing, but there is the possibility of overkill.<\/p>\n

Psalm 1, then.<\/p>\n

“Blessed is the person who does not walk in the council of the wicked or stand in the road of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.”<\/p>\n

By opening the Psalter this way, the organizer and collector of these 150 hymns from Jerusalem’s temple, whoever he was, wanted to open the collection with a benediction.\u00a0 The blessing tells us who the ideal reader and singer of the book is to be, namely, the person who actively avoids involvement in plots and schemes that lead to evil.\u00a0 A curious verse, really.\u00a0 You would expect the person to stand in the counsel and walk on the road, but this person does the opposite, or rather avoids the opposite.\u00a0 Very arresting.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the description of the ideal reader and singer of these Psalms.\u00a0 This person responds to the Torah with pleasure.\u00a0 He or she is attentive to Torah to the extent of “meditating” on it all the time.\u00a0 Actually, our English word “meditate” is too weak.\u00a0 The Hebrew word means something more active (the same word appears in Psalm 2:1).\u00a0 It’s like when you pace the floor back and forth all night talking to yourself about whatever is on your mind.\u00a0 That’s the ideal reader’s response.<\/p>\n

And so the Psalmist compares this person to the most beautiful things he knows, the beauty of nature.\u00a0 Those of us who live in west Texas understand this.\u00a0 Trees are precious things.\u00a0 Green is a wonderful color.\u00a0 And virtue is too.\u00a0 A life well lived is the ultimate act of biblical interpretation.<\/p>\n

Something to do: Please let me hear which is your favorite Psalm.\u00a0 I’d like to talk about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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