Psalm Chapter 92 - A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day

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Psalm 92: A Song for the SabbathHere is a psalm with a job to do — it is, the superscription tells us, A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day — and watch how it does that job. It does not lecture us on rest. It simply gives thanks. Lovingkindness in the morning, faithfulness every night, music on every instrument the temple could find: these are the sabbath's vocabulary. Then it reaches for two trees. The wicked spring like grass, briefly impressive and gone by Tuesday. But the righteous flourish like a palm tree, grow like a cedar in Lebanon, and most extraordinarily, "shall still bring forth fruit in old age." There is a quiet promise tucked into that line that the world rarely makes and almost never keeps: that the years that look like decline can in fact be the years of a slow-ripening sweetness. The sabbath is not the absence of work; it is the soil in which a long life learns to bear fruit.00:00 To Show Forth Thy Lovingkindness01:00 The Righteous Shall Flourish02:00 Fruit in Old Age

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