Getting the Psalms into Your Bones

If you're anything like us, you are constantly on the hunt for ways to get the Psalms "into your bones." Ellen and I have been listening to "My Soul Among Lions" renditions of the first ten psalms and we are happy to report that these divinely inspired hymns/prayers are quickly burrowing themselves into our souls and sidling, unbidden, into our thoughts as we move through our daily routines. The album is available on iTunes or here. Here is a little taste. Enjoy. GH

You Were Born to Trouble

For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. (Job 5:6-7)

The only thing truly strange about our troubles, is our dogged belief that having troubles is truly strange. Here is how N.D. Wilson puts it:

"Heat rises. Man is born to trouble. When Job lifted his face to the Storm, when he asked and was answered, he learned that he was very small. He learned that his life was a story. He spoke with the Author, and learned that the genre had not been an accident. God tells stories that make Sunday school teachers sweat and mothers write their children permission slips excusing them from encountering reality…Nails are forged for pounding. Man is born to trouble. Man is born far trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded—under torch and hammer and chisel—into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God." (Death by Living, page 69)