Psalms

The Psalms aren’t the clandestine successes of a faithful soul, but are the journaled hopes of a desperate soul — of one teetering on the edge of oblivion.

Only God creates clean hearts.

As the sin-bearer, Jesus was also the sin-confessor in the psalms.

We prefer God to forgive our sin by not paying attention to it. Then our prayer is not for grace but that God would overlook and wink at us from the sidelines.

Israel is all the people who believe in the LORD and gather at His throne. It is no longer a national distinction, it is one of faith.