I have been exposed to many Psalms and translations into songs because I grew up in the church and was part of a choir. Just a short time ago, I took on the task of reading through the whole book of Psalm. Through the influences around me, I have found a liking in Psalm 139. This is because in choir we sang a song composed by Alan Pote titled Psalm 139 and it is one of the chapters that I refer to it often as it relates to my life. What the verse encompasses is simply that God knows you and knows your every movement, struggle, and who you truly are. Each year the people who graduated from our choir would come back and we would all sing this song. With every year we would have a bigger and bigger group because of the number of people who graduated. When we sang this song together it was such a powerful moment in which we could all relate to each other and unite in this one song that we all knew. The message always rang clear through the congregation and through the singers. I know it resonated with me. It is something that I can find strength in and other people can too. When there is a shared feeling of comfort, people can unite with a common goal. Not just in this one Psalm, but in many Psalms, people can relate to the struggles and joys that are felt by the narrator. I believe therefore the book of Psalms is one of the most relatable books in the Bible. It is so convenient to get to as well (most of the time you can open the Bible in the middle and you will be in Psalm). It is easy to find something that is in Psalm that at one point in time anyone could relate to.
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