Year in the Bible Week 19

The Lord is my Shepherd by Keith and Kristyn Getty

While we read David’s words in the Book of Psalms I’ll be posting some music inspired by the psalms. If you have a favorite, please text me! We will get back to the masters of renaissance art shortly.

While we explore the David’s lyrics, let’s take a moment to reflect on the volumes of music it has inspired through the ages. There were sung prayers and chants 1500 years ago, church music through the middle ages, and classic compositions that have become standard hymns. The church today sings protestant hymns based on psalms all the time, and even now we see a constant stream of new music from this timeless well of musical praise and prayer.

David’s psalms in particular express his relationship with God better than any altar, temple, or sacrifice can. All are very important, and are prescribed by God as appropriate ways to worship, but only music brings the individual love and longings of people together into one multidimensional tapestry for God’s ears to hear, and that’s a pleasing aroma to him!

When we sing together, even at our best, we would be barely tolerable compared to the perfection of heaven. Thankfully, God hears more than out-of-tune people who sometimes for get the words. He hears every heart focusing on him, in the same moment, multiplying the factors of everyone’s individual experience with all the ways he has been present to us. God is the only one who hears our worship music in that way, and in his word he says how much he loves it!