Weekly Reading...

This week at Living Grace, we continue our journey through the Psalms together. Each week, we read a few chapters as a church family to help us stay rooted in God’s Word and united in His truth. The Psalms teach us how to worship, how to pray, and how to trust the Lord through every season of life.

This week’s reading is Psalms 114 through 116. These passages remind us of God’s mighty power, His faithfulness to His people, and His mercy toward those who call on His name.

Psalm 114 celebrates the Lord’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt.

Psalm 115 calls us to give all glory to God alone.

Psalm 116 is a personal song of gratitude for God’s saving grace and deliverance.

As you read these Psalms throughout the week, take time to reflect on what they reveal about God’s character and how His Word strengthens your faith.

PSALM 114 (ESV)

¹ When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, ² Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³ The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. ⁵ What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back? ⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O hills, like lambs? ⁷ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, ⁸ who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

PSALM 115 (ESV)
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¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! ² Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” ³ Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. ⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. ⁶ They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. ⁷ They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. ⁸ Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them. ⁹ O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. ¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. ¹¹ You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. ¹² The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. ¹³ He will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great. ¹⁴ May the Lord give you increase, you and your children! ¹⁵ May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth! ¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man. ¹⁷ The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence. ¹⁸ But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the Lord!

PSALM 116 (ESV)

¹ I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. ² Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. ³ The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. ⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!” ⁵ Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful. ⁶ The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. ⁷ Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. ⁹ I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁰ I believed, even when I spoke: “I am greatly afflicted”; ¹¹ I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.” ¹² What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? ¹³ I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord, ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people. ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. ¹⁶ O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord! Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!