June 2025 – Elder’s Message

Reach for a Psalm

As we go through life, we experience many moods. Moods of joy, stress, contentment, celebration, sorrow, etc. The Bibles’s Book of Psalms has some advice for every mood.

• When you’re in the mood to praise the Lord and would like to be poetic: “My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skilled writer” (Psalm 45:1).
• When you’re at a table full of food and know it’s all a gift from him, reach for a psalm: “Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good. His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 136:1).
• When the medical diagnosis is serious, but the prognosis is good, reach for a psalm: “Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure” (Psalm 16:9).
• When a hard week ends and you will worship with friends, reach for a Psalm: “I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord’” (Psalm 122:1).
• When you want to raise music to the Lord, reach for a psalm: “Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet…praise him with resounding cymbals” (Psalm 150:3-5).
• When you feel that only some ‘flash and boom’ will do, reach for a psalm: “Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked” (Psalm 77:18).
• When you need a little peace and quiet, reach for a psalm: “Be still, and know that I am the Lord” (Psalm 46:10).

When you are in the mood to praise the Lord your God, reach for a Psalm.