December 28 will be my last hurrah as your regular preacher. I tell you all this because I am going to be preaching two more sermons from the Psalms before I hang up my Geneva gown as your full-time part-time pastor. Anyway, whoever wrote these literary and poetic gems, their meditations are worthy of our consideration, because they capture much of the essence of what it means to be a child of God and a follower of His will in His world. Other authors are noted in the superscriptions at the head of various Psalms, including Moses, and that one is especially doubtful. Nearly half of them are said to have been written by King David, though it is doubtful that is historically accurate. We shall never know who all the authors of these spiritual songs were. I did it because I think the Psalms contain some of the loftiest and most salient thoughts about God to be found anywhere in holy writ. Nor did anyone put a gun to me head to force me to do it.
You need to understand that nobody insisted that I do that.
I haven’t preached from every Psalm, but I have done so from a large number of them. Text – Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? – Psalm 139:7 (RSV) The Omnipresence Of Godįor the past almost eleven years, I have preached from the Book of Psalms more than from any other book in the Bible. Hilton Head Island, SC – September 7, 2014
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