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 ascent. It's super short. This Psalm

always gets me excited though because it's the one we read when we arrive in Jerusalem on our trips to Israel.

As we stand and look out over the city, I can literally say the last words of that chapter from the same place God's people have been

saying those words for 3,000 years. May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven

and earth. In Psalm 146, the Psalmust 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.

V 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 actually still live in that blessing despite it all. That's the blessing. Then in

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