Over the last few months we have been blogging summaries from Eugene Peterson’s Book “A Long Obedience In The Same Direction,” based upon the Songs Of Ascents. This colletion of Psalms serve as a wonderful guide in the pursuit of glorifying God through all of life. Here is a pdf of the entire series. LongObedienceSameDirection.rb.d
Archive for the ‘Songs Of Ascents’ Category
BLESSING: “LIFT YOUR PRAISNIG HANDS” (Part 16)
Psalm 134 (ESV) 1Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! 2 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD! 3May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! Stand, Stoop, Stay: The way of [...]
COMMUNITY: “LIKE COSTLY ANOINTING OIL FLOWING DOWN HEAD & BEARD” (Part 15)
Psalm 133 (ESV) 1Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! 2It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! 3It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of [...]
OBEDIENCE: “HOW HE PROMISED GOD” (Part 14)
Psalm 132 (ESV) 1Remember, O LORD, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured, 2how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 3 “I will not enter my house or get into my bed, 4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5until I [...]
HUMILITY: “I’VE KEPT MY FEET ON THE GROUND” (Part 13)
Psalm 131 (ESV) 1O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within [...]
HOPE: “I PRAY TO GOD…AND WAIT FOR WHAT HE’LL SAY & DO” (Part 12)
Psalm 130 (ESV) 1Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! 2O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. 5I [...]
PERSEVERANCE: “THEY NEVER COULD KEEP ME DOWN” (Part 11)
Psalm 129 (ESV) 1 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”- let Israel now say- 2 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” 4The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the [...]
HAPPINESS: “ENJOY THE BLESSING! REVEL IN THE GOODNESS” (Part 10)
Psalm 128 (ESV) 1 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! 2You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive [...]
WORK: “IF GOD DOESN’T BUILD THE HOUSE” (Part 9)
Psalm 127 (ESV) 1Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved [...]
JOY: “WE LAUGHED, WE SANG” (Part 8)
Psalm 126 (ESV) 1When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. 2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” 3The LORD has done great things for us; we are [...]