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So today, Paul, we are talking through Psalms 6 through 10 and we talked about that as we go through the Psalms,

we're going to choose one or two to focus on today. So I'd love for you to share with us what Psalms

we're going to be focusing on today and what we should take away from this.

Yeah, well, before I talk about a specific psalm, there's something kind of more general about

Psalms I think I want to bring up. And it's really that the Psalms communicate a lot about God's

character as it relates to the very real and practical situations and emotions that we face in life.

I think sometimes narrative portions of scripture occasionally can feel a little bit wooden to our current modern minds

just because we would not be familiar with certain pieces of context or situations that we don't quite understand.

But the Psalms often just give raw human

emotion that we can straight up relate to, pray the exact words that we see in the Psalms.

And so I think there's probably most of us have felt like David does in Psalm 6. He writes, I am weary with my moaning. Every night I flood my

bed with tears. I drench my couch with my weeping. And obviously there's some hyperbole being used

here. Obviously, I don't think that's literally how much she's crying, but that's the point. It

feels as if he could drench his bed in his tears.

And when the tears just don't seem to stop, this Psalm can give us a response.

And so in verse 9, we see the truth of God's character shine through.

It says, the Lord has heard my plea.

The Lord accepts my prayer. And so even though we may not

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