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.
Ultimately, Ecclesiastes wants us to be so dissatisfied with life “under the sun” that we learn to cling to life under the Son.
What are your priorities in life? All too often, our priorities center around what is temporal rather than what is eternal. The wisdom psalms teach us how to turn this around.
There is a futile emptiness of trying to find meaning and satisfaction “under the sun.” But when we fear the One who is above the sun, our futility is transformed into a living hope.
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.
The greatness of God is on marvelous display in the universe. We need only take a closer look at everything around us in order to see it and glorify Him for the gratuitous beauty He has put into creation.
The more we look at creation, the more we see that evolution and natural selection cannot account for the complexity and gratuitous beauty we see.
God is of inconceivable magnitude and glory. We cannot even understand the natural things of the world; the mind of God is far above our own.
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