What does “Spiritual Care” look like? Dailyness……consistency. My husband Dusty has been going through the Psalms with our church family for a little over a year now. Week in and week out he reads through them over and over, then he jots a few notes and each Sunday he gets up in front of our church family and reads through the passage, then reads the notes he’s made.
It’s not fancy, it’s not a “sermon”, but he has been faithful. I thought I’d post some of them on my blog, as I just think the Psalms are such soothing balm to our soul. Dusty didn’t start typing them out until Psalm 49, so that’s why we are not starting at the beginning!
I truly believe it’s not usually the “big” things that shape us (though some certainly do….), but much more so the little everyday things…..like with studying the Bible. It’s 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, an hour perhaps……it’s the ebb and flow and daily consistency in your life whatever you are choosing to do. Whether it’s skincare, Bible time, sports…..it’s the moments when no one is paying any attention and you have a choice to be faithful to do it or not that truly add up.
Psalms49
This psalm starts with hear this all ye people give ear all ye inhabitants of the world. And verse 2 says low and high and rich and poor So pretty much everybody listen up!
Like Lee mentioned the other day, Proverbs talks repeatedly about the importance of listening to wisdom and what is wiser than Gods word? V6-7 say that people that trust in their wealth or boast in the multitude of their riches still aren’t able to buy redemption for their brother or give God a ransom for him, this goes for themselves or you and I also. No one can buy their way or someone else’s way to heaven.
v10 says all men will die, wise, fools, or brutish people all perish and someone else will get there wealth. And in verse 11 it says their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever. I have known people that think like this. They don’t want to consider that they will die one day – they want to think of it as something a long way off or way into the future. It goes on to say that this thinking is folly.
v14 is very graphic – it says they are like sheep laid in a grave and death shall feed on them. So we see people like sheep can’t fight off death and wealth can’t save us from it either. But verse fifteen, “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. So for the saved believer trusting in God, the grave has no power over us. So which options sounds better? Trust your riches? Or trust God to tend to our souls? For me it’s an easy choice.
Then v 16 encourages us to not be afraid or don’t be envious if someone is made rich and I think that it is referring to them that are living for that or trusting in it (riches), that they cannot carry anything with them. Those, that while they live, bless and do well to themselves, will not see light and are like the beasts that perish. So let’s all make sure we are putting our trust in God and the redeeming power of the blood of Jesus, and not the riches and wealth that will be left behind to others.
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