Psalm 73 ministries

 "None of us will ever forget this day" were part of the final words of president George W. Bush in his  address to America the night of the 9-11 attack in 2001. Today, at lunch time, I was listening to the beautiful rendition of "my tribute (to God be the glory)" by Natalie Grant and I couldn't stop thinking about the phrase "to God be the glory for the things he has done". I can never forget how good God has been to me. I can never forget His walking with me despite the bad news I was given a year and a half ago, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. I can simply not forget "the things He has done". This has been a year of up and downs, pandemic lows and pandemic highs, low moods and high moods, and a plethora of issues that affected each one of our lives at different levels.In this year's first six months, some of us had a little ray of hope that this terrible pandemic was coming to an end but, when winter started, that di...

 The very first two verses of Psalm 63 say the following: " O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory." I don't know about you but every time I say something is mine, that something becomes kind of personal to me, doesn't it? That's what David is doing in this Psalm, he referrs to his God as "my God". He is implying that he has a very personal relationship with God. In fact, that's what he says in the second part of verse one through the expressions "I seek you", "my soul thirsts for you" and "my flesh faints for you". He has such deep a desire to get even closer to his God than he already is, that he can't contain his attraction to Him and wants to do everything possible to accomplish that closeness. Do we have the same desire to get close...