When I read Psalm 50, I imagine it as a courtroom drama. I do not know how many of us have ever stood in a courtroom in front of a judge for some crime we committed. But I am pretty sure we have all witnessed a courtroom drama on TV.

Psalm 45 is a love song – according to the superscription which reads: “To the choirmaster: According to Lilies. A maskil of the Sons of Korah; A love song”. Think about what a good love song does for your heart.

I remember meeting a young lady early on in my walk with the Lord. She had lived a very hard life far from the Lord but was beginning to show some early signs of interest in the things of the Lord.

When was the last time you longed for or desired to be vindicated or declared innocent? When was the last time you longed for protection from something or someone? When was the last time you longed for full deliverance from something that was afflicting you? When was the last time you found yourself seeking shelter from all that is unholy in this world or all that is unholy within you?

The forty second Psalm is the song of a heart that is full of conflict. As you study this Psalm you may notice how our Psalmist wavers back and forth between high confessions of theological truth and sobering cries of depression, fear, and loneliness. His heart is conflicted within him.

Our Summer in the Psalms series is the series I look forward to the most every year. This will be the fifth year we have devoted our summer series to studying through the Psalms and I am anticipating it to be one of the richest times yet!