Sunday – Poetry

Reading – Psalms 1-3

Highlight Verse:

“They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Whenever I read Psalms like these, I get a picture in my head of young David sitting down in a field with his sheep with a pencil and a pad of paper.

Yes, I know it’s a silly image since we don’t know that David penned this Psalm, nor did he have a pencil or paper.

But the beautiful poetic imagery of what constantly thinking about God’s Word can do for us brings that image to my mind.

So, what did they do without paper to write down the Psalms?

They did get written down by scribes eventually. Until then, they had another method.

A psalm is not just a poem; it is a song.

There are verses that I memorized 50 years ago and never forgot, because they were put to music.

We sang them in Sunday School and in worship. Some of the songs we sing today are Scriptures set to music.

It helped the writers of the Psalms remember al the words.

And it helps us remember the Word of God.

Do you remember any Scriptures as songs?
Have you ever tried to put verses to music so you could remember it better?
Did it work? (It did for me)