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-salms 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 psalmist 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 actually still live in that blessing despite it all. That's the

blessing. Then in Psalm 147, we see that God is attentive to the heartbroken, and to a whole list of other things

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