Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

It's been a while since we had an all Psalms day. Today we launched out with

Psalm 134 which is the last of the Psalms of a cent. It's super short and I think

it's so sweet of the Lord to put this song in our reading plan on the exact day our crew lands in Israel.

So I can literally say these words of the last verse from the same place God's people have been saying these words for

3,000 years. May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth. In

Psalm. The Psalmest reminds us not to put our trust in people. This isn't a call to be cynical or suspicious of everyone.

It's more along the lines of not expecting people to rescue us or fulfill us.

When we place on a human the kind of workload only God

can carry, it crushes them and it disappoints us.

Verse 5 says,

Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord.

This person who puts their confidence in God,

not in what he can do for you or how he can make all your dreams come true,

but in God himself, period, will be blessed.

This isn't saying if you hope in God that you'll get all those material blessings you're tempted to try to claim.

The word blessed here is often translated happy.

So it boils down to this.

When we trust God in all things, it brings a freedom that doesn't exist elsewhere.

Because of his sovereignty over all things, I don't have to panic when I'm delayed in

traffic or when I don't get the job I think I'm perfect for. Because I can trust him. I can

open my hand, loosen my grip. And because I know he's doing good things somehow, I can

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