Week 24. Step out of the traffic

Week 24:  We finished reading BOOK ONE of the Psalms, and we also discovered a refreshing way to hear the Psalms:  through “The Message” version, on our Bible phone app.

We tried it one day and wow, it makes the Psalms come alive in a fresh and surprising way.  The reader is young and the language is contemporary.  So the familiar verses are heard in a new way.  We have decided to use The Message version on the phone app for the remainder of Psalms, to LISTEN daily as we read along in our Daily Walk Bible.

Example:  Psalm 46: 10 in the NIV says: “Be still and know that I am God…,” but in The Message, it says: “Step out of the traffic, and take a long loving look at me…” 

I have thought of that several times in the past week.  I am grateful that I can enter the mystery of God’s calming presence at any time, and at any place, and in any circumstance. 

Psalms 70 in The Message: “God!  Please hurry to my rescue!  God, come quickly to my side!” 

Keep reading, till next week….Audrey