The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience of

life into the presence of God. Join Scott Pauley now as we study God's word together.

There is a paralysis to fear.

When you get frightened, something happens.

You can't think straight.

Your emotions go haywire.

It's very difficult to live in any normalcy,

and certainly very difficult, to live with joy

when fear is possessing your thoughts

and controlling your life. Psalm 37 is a Psalm for people who are anxious. It is a Psalm for

anxious hearts. Now, I don't know when David wrote Psalm 37. We know it's a Psalm of David. It could

have been at any one of many junctures in David's journey.

But I have a pretty good idea. It was at some point when David was afraid of others, of what was going on around him.

And I think that's very symbolic for all of us because, frankly, it's the people that surround us it's the world that surrounds us

it's the circumstance that surrounds us that provides so much anxiety for us and so what's the

answer the answer is you got to get your eyes off of all of those things and people and circumstances

and get your eyes back on the lord let me read to you the first few verses of Psalm 37.

David writes,

"'Fretn not thyself because of evil-doers.

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