For Dear Life

There was an opportunity presented from New Tribes Bible Institute for anyone interested in taking a class on the Psalms.  I got an email about it and saw it was going to be on Monday nights ...hmmmm ....ironically, that is about our only free night of the week.  I have been trying to read through the whole Bible this year and I realized that every time I have some selected reading in the book of Psalms I always read passed the allotted amount.  Some people call the Psalms the "heart" of the Old Testament....because it expresses the most emotion...so, I emailed Brad,...."want to take the class with me?" Tonight, I realized why he and I were never in school at the same time....it seems it was GOD's WILL...haha!  because....I cannot sit by him in class....we joke too much and laugh at inopportune moments! :)  

We get to write our own Psalm for a final project and we have to use similes, metaphors, and imagery...when I  heard that, I was so excited!  I know, I am so weird.....maybe I'll write it tonight....I already have lots of ideas.

In class, we studied some of 1 & 2 Samuel (the historical events David was living through) and cross-referenced them with the Psalms where David describes his feelings, prayers, praises, laments, suffering, and victories corresponding to those exact events....that was awesome to be able to put them together like that.  I love the passion in the Psalms...poetry is one thing, but Biblical poetry really calls us to, not only use our imagination and go on an emotional adventure....but, to make real decisions to go deeper with God....

Some of our discussion was about the use of similes and metaphors in the Psalms and how usually the simile is used when the description is related to man and a metaphor is used for referencing GOD.  So, in other words....we are like ___________________....but, HE IS _______________________.  This concept is making me think a lot tonight...part of it is that HE is the Great "I AM"...right?  

I can be like a tree planted by the water....when I am in the Spirit....when I am at my strongest....but, I am only "like" these things because I am not constant...I waver.

  

He is my ROCK and my STRONG TOWER and whatever wonderful image you hang on to for dear life from the Psalms to describe a way He has shown Himself as your Deliverer...HE IS THAT THING FOR YOU....because HE IS MORE THAN THAT!  He can never be less than that thing...am I making any sense?.  I am equal to or less than the things men are compared to...BUT GOD is always GREATER THAN whatever I can think of to describe HIS character....and He not only tells me He is this for me.....He shows me the Truth of His nature. 

So, the question of....IS HE ENOUGH?   IS ANSWERED with.... MUCH MORE THAN ENOUGH for me!