Either life is meaningless, or it isn’t—there are no options in between. If life is meaningless, then this temporal world is all we have, and it will quickly pass away. But the wisdom Psalms teach us the truth: life has meaning, and that meaning is rooted in our eternal God.
Do you want to know how to have an eternal perspective? The wisdom psalms focus on cultivating this long-term mindset, teaching us to fix our hearts and our minds on what is truly ultimate rather than living for short-term gain.
We all ought to be more and more homesick. We are pilgrims, sojourners, wayfarers, aliens, and exiles on this earth. Our journey here is brief, ephemeral. But what we do today matters.
Psalms 119 and 127 teach us how to gain perspective in times of affliction as well as how to have a Christocentric view of our lives.
Our perspective—whether temporal or eternal—will determine our standards and the source of our hope, and our practice will reveal what that perspective truly is.
The wisdom psalms teach us to treat things according to their true value. They give us perspective to see what is temporal and what is eternal, enabling us to live in light of that reality.
True wisdom involves treating things according to their true value. To do so, we need an eternal perspective from training in the Word and in prayer.
We learn true wisdom when we look at the character of God. Three verses in Proverbs illustrate the sovereignty of the God behind all wisdom.
Wisdom is about cultivating a higher sense of “the good life”—not giving ourselves up for power, popularity, or possessions, but submitting to Christ.
The things of this world clamor for our attention. But they are not worthy of pursuit—they will pass away.
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