What Does Psalm 1 Mean To Me

On a personal note, I practice reading the Bible through the process of observation. For instance, I practice learning what to look for in the text; interpreting the meaning; I prayerfully seek God and through the power of the Holy Spirit I can apply what I read. Nevertheless, I feel Ferrin’s process of inductive Bible study might prove more productive and edifying both personally and in a group.

Psalms 139 speaks to me as a song of praise. God speaks very clearly about how he knows us. He knows our every thought. He cares about our comings and goings. Every word that we speak God knows it before we even speak it. I love the song there will be pain in the night and joy comes in the morning. Says that he is always with us no matter where we are at. His sprit never leaves us. We could go to the depths of the earth, settle in on the far side of the sea, we can hide in the darkest places and he will find us because he cares for us. This psalm is very meaningful to me because it lets me know that my Lord will never leave me or forsake me. He created me I will praise him because “I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful

This quote encourages me to take strides in my faith in order to reach those that are lost and living a lifestyle that will lead to death, destruction, and an eternity in hell. Rather than condemning someone for their lifestyle, we should strive to present them with the alternative of an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

One memory that this reading brought up to me was when I was in undergrad and I was raped by someone whom I believed to be my friend. Before this incident happened I wouldn't have called myself very religious, but I trusted God and the word of God. I was very involved with church and attended very regularly. After the incident happened I no longer trusted in God. I knew he was still watching over me, but I felt betrayed and I felt that he wasn't there for me when I needed him the most. With this I struggled for a long time with trying to get over the incident and trying to just get through school. I knew there was help, but I had fallen in such a deep hole there was nothing anyone could do. I found myself not worthy of things, I drank more and more each day, and I just felt like I hit rock bottom. One day my mother thought that I should attend church service on a Sunday so I did. I went to church and talked with church family. I was scared that I was going to be judged over what I had become. It was amazing I had struggled so much that after talking to my church family and allowing God back in I saw that God was the only way. Once I had opened my eyes and heart and let the word of God and God back into my life it was a major turn around for my life.

Walking into class for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I grew up going to church every Sunday and going to Sunday School after the church service, it was a Christian household. I know the stories, the important Bible versus and the songs. I would say that I know my faith, my faith was something that I knew and I wouldn 't question it. It was something I was confident with since its something I have known since birth. In this class we question faith, we question everything, even Jesus. I am learning that questions are the best way someone can learn. While reading Night, The Plague and The Gospel of Mark, I got to explore the meaning of the word God.

St. Jerome, said” ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” When I learn to know God through the Scriptures, the more I see how much our Heavenly Father loves me, the more I fall in love with Jesus, and the more I trust the Holy Spirit to guide me. And then it made me Love my family unconditionally,

However, knowledge has been an area of slow and intermittent growth. I learned the Lutheran Catechism as part of the process of publicly proclaiming my faith as a young man. During my college years, I struggled in trying to explain my faith when confronted with issues such as God directed violence. My non-Christian friends wanted to know how I could believe in a God who commands the slaughter of innocent women and children by the people of Israel. I had difficulty answering these questions because I had never been taught that my faith required me to develop answers to these questions. However, the disequilibrium produced by the questions of my friends became a catalyst for my learning. Cox (n.d.) stated in his Biblical Principles Related to Education #15 “Disequilibrium is a primary catalyst for learning (p. 1). Just as Job responded to the questions of his friends, I felt it necessary to answer the questions of my friends. Like Job (New International Version), I knew that my friends were wrong but I still saw the need to respond to their questions. Moreover, I was able to learn and grow in the process and developed a faith that was based on knowledge and not just blind acceptance of what I had been taught as a

A lot of times people think that if we are good enough Christians that we would never go through tough times. It would be so wonderful if God would simply promise to us that we would never go through difficult times. Yet we know it’s just a part of it, it’s just a part of life. Psalm 23 does not say to us, “God will keep us from danger,“ but instead it describes that times will come, and they come for all of us, when we do feel like we are walking through a dark, dangerous valley -- a “valley of the shadow of death.” Perhaps even now in the grief we feel today feels like a dark valley… But what the Word of God does make very clear is that as we move through

I’m in the middle of a journey in my life with choosing to return to school after being downsized from a job of more than 12 years. These past few weeks have been exceptionally difficult with taking multiple classes, homework, looking for a job, running a house and my husband getting sick. This was the main thing that just took me over especially since he’s usually healthy and rarely ever gets so much as a cold. We’ve been together since high school so together longer than we’ve been apart. We’ve been back and forth to the hospital and to a specialist all in the past few weeks. The devotional contains so many scriptures that sent me the messages I truly need to hear as I was feeling overwhelms and tired. But the following is the one that hits home for me:

Slowly I began to wrap my mind around what God was teaching me. I opened my Bible began to read. Romans 8: 35-39, "Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? As the scripture says, 'For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be

I can completely relate to this Psalm because of the many

While the Holy Bible is filled with many different types of writing, including history, narratives, poetic literature and apocalyptic, it forms a cohesive theme that tells me where I, and all things originated from, as well as my purpose in this world. Because the Holy Scriptures give, what is to me, a plausible understanding of who I am and how my life matters, I have discovered that I want to align my life and future in accord with its directives and commands. The reason that I hold these writings with such high regard is because the Holy Bible says of itself that God breathed it out onto men to write down and that it contains the very instructions needed for me to live a life that is honoring of God and worthy of what God deserves. II Timothy 3:16-17 states, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work”. For this reason, the Holy Bible has taken on a role of great importance in my life and because it is the very revelation of God, revealing who God is and how God has worked and continues to work throughout history, I have determined that it is foundational to my faith and a practical guide to direct me in determining the course I should take in this life.

In conclusion, I learn something new every time I read the Bible, and one verse can change my perspective in life for the better. Psalms is one of my favorite books from the Bible because its gives my motivation but most importantly it brings me peace. Now that this semester is wrapping up and finals coming next week, these verses help me to have more trust in God during

Geese Blackboard Post - This was another interesting assignment that helped connect the bible to my everyday life. As, I stated before, I am not a stranger to the bible, but I was stunned to see all of the everyday activities the bible discussed. I often returned to specific elements of the bible (Psalms 23), to assist me when I am down. However, after this course I was able to become better acquainted with the bible and its content on everyday life. This course assignment was instrumental in me reading the bible and finding out about friendship and forgiveness.

As a new believer, I believe it is a must that a person reads the bible as close to every day as possible. I remember when my parents first came to Christ, they would read the bible. Not just because they wanted to, but they were hungry for the word and wanted to dive head first into it. This is not bad at all don’t get me wrong. With them being new believers, they are going to try to soak up the Word like someone sipping out of a straw. They want to read this life changing book that Christians talk about so much. Compare it to this, a little boy walks into a candy store and buys some candy. The Mom says that he can eat it right away, so the kid rips the wrapper off as quickly as he can and shoves the candy in his mouth. That is kind of how a new believer is with the bible. They shove their whole face into the bible to taste its sweet joy.