We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms because they remind

us to keep returning to the truth of God's Word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today. Do you like a short sermon?

Somebody said their favorite sermon was a short sermon.

We've come to a short sermon today, literally, Psalm 117, the shortest of all the psalms and yet this short

sermon reaches to the entire world listen to psalm 117 oh praise the lord all ye nations praise him

all ye people for his merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord

endureth forever, praise ye the Lord. What an amazing Psalm this is. We believe Psalm 117 was written

in the same occasion that the previous Psalm was written, Psalm 116, after the people

returned from captivity. So certainly, they had reason to praise the Lord. But in a very real sense,

Psalm 117 is a Psalm for every occasion, because God's people should always be praising Him.

We should always be grateful for His merciful kindness and always giving him glory for his truth.

Psalm 117 is brief, but it is overflowing with truth.

Charles Spurgeon said that it was brief in its letter, but it was bursting with its spirit.

In other words, it overflows the banks with the glory and

goodness and greatness of our God. I love the fact that in its placement in the Psalms, it is very

close to the longest Psalm, which we're coming to, by the way, very shortly, Psalm 119. Yes, if you're

wondering, we're going to cover Psalm 119 in one episode, in one study.

But here we have the shortest psalm and the longest psalm almost next to one another,

only one psalm separating them.

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