End of Summer Songs

This a series called "End of Summer Songs."

All of us have songs we like that we associate with summer. In the Bible, the book of Psalms contains the songs and prayers of Israel, 150 of them gathered in a collection that includes joyful songs of praise and thanksgiving as well as sad songs of lamentation and distress.

The songs and prayers are addressed to God, usually either pleading for help or bearing witness to God’s gracious acts on behalf of God’s people. Jesus died with psalms on his lips, quoting from or referring directly to three of them, including Psalm 31, our focus for this Sunday.

While we won’t be reading the entire Psalm in worship, I encourage you to do so.

Psalm 31 is an intensely personal prayer for deliverance.

The title of the Psalm says that this is a Psalm of David. David turned to the Lord in times of distress and so can we, and in Psalm 31 he pours out his lament to the Lord and expresses his trust in our faithful God in whom we all can find refuge.

If we wanted to give this Psalm a title, “Taking refuge in the Lord,” would be appropriate.

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