86. What the Psalms Are Trying to Teach Us

Your life was made to be a Psalm.

As this journey through the Psalms draws toward its close, John Ortberg reflects on where the Psalter has been leading us all along.

Psalm 1 begins by asking what kind of life we will live. The Psalms then carry us through fear, anger, grief, confession, hope, and joy. But the final five Psalms end in an explosion of one thing:

Praise.

In Psalm 148, everything is invited into the song: people, animals, mountains, stars, sun, moon, even the creatures of the sea.

And so are you.

Maybe a life with God isn't about escaping the messiness of being human. Maybe it's about learning to bring all of it before God until our lives themselves become a song.

Hallelujah.

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00:00 Coming to the End of the Psalms
 00:30 What's Coming Next at Become New
 00:59 The STEPS Seminar
 01:19 What the Psalms Have Taught Me
 01:56 From Wisdom to Praise
 02:20 Psalm 148
 02:41 All Creation Is Invited to Praise
 03:14 You Couldn't Get More Inclusive
 03:43 Make Every Breath Worth Celebrating
 04:10 Duets on the Psalms
 04:16 Two Very Different Worship Services
 04:58 Which One Would the Psalmist Prefer?
 05:28 Two Revolutionary Ideas From Genesis
 05:57 Every Human Being Bears God's Image
 06:19 Why Democracy Needs Both Equality and Humility
 06:43 Nature Isn't God
 07:11 Nature Was Made to Worship
 07:36 We Sang Before We Spoke
 08:00 What We've Lost About Music
 08:24 Music Was Made to Be Shared
 08:44 The Loneliest Whale on Earth
 09:10 Even the Lonely Whale Is Heard
 09:59 The One Word for Today
 10:24 We Were Made to Sing
 10:48 Your Life Was Made to Be a Psalm
 11:12 What Hallelujah Really Means
 11:37 What John Is Grateful For
 11:53 And So Were You
 12:11 Hallelujah!