I used to look at the Psalms and say “Aw man! There are so many of these, I don’t want to even start reading them.” That was before I learned that the Psalms are mainly a collection of poems and songs written by people in conversation with God. Then my whole outlook on them changed. The Psalms are about the faith of real people — like us. We find ourselves in the Psalms.

We might wonder who “the righteous” are in this psalm. I believe that the righteous are the people who encounter God and allow God to move in their lives, and I believe that includes us. And this poem says that the righteous (we) are in God’s dwelling place. We are in a place where we see God and are nurtured by God. The author says that we are where the Lord lives and walks, in God’s intimate home. There we are planted, and in the home of God, we are continuously being tended to.

By Chris Wondree from D365