Song Of Solomon Chapter 12 Analysis
Journal Week Twelve
All of our readings this week seemed to drip with the centrality of God's character. God is the divine center of all, and as Paul said in his address the those in Rome, "...from him and through him and to him are all things" (Rom. 11:36). This was evidenced in all of our assigned Bible passages. In Psalms, we see God being praised and worshipped as the maker of all, thanked for the provisions and blessing that He alone authors, trusted as a strong tower in times of trouble, petitioned for His great mercy, love, and forgiveness, and begged for his sovereign justice. The Song of Solomon displays, though not explicitly mentioned, the sanctity of a marriage with God at the center; and Lamentations shows us the picture of a God who is in control despite trying circumstances. All of scripture points to the supremacy and primacy of God. I also enjoyed contemplating the psychological benefits of the Psalms as highlighted in Crutchfield's text. I know that in my own life, I am often very hesitant to pray when I am experiencing certain emotions. This is partly because I am not very emotionally expressive, and partly because I feel like I cannot talk to God when I know my feelings aren't what one might call "buttoned up and dry cleaned". Yet I've learned this …show more content…
If they are not chronologically ordered, how were the Psalms positioned as we see them today? Who was in charge of this? And should we acknowledge, teach, and apply as a study aide the psalter's human five-fold divisions that we learned about from Plummer and Crutchfield? Are we correct to teach about the literary structure of a Bible book the humans structured? While I may not know the answers to these questions, and may never know, Plummer really hit the nail on the head when he emphasized that the reading of God's word was the principal thing. Reading of God's word is better than studying what other people think about God's
All of our readings this week seemed to drip with the centrality of God's character. God is the divine center of all, and as Paul said in his address the those in Rome, "...from him and through him and to him are all things" (Rom. 11:36). This was evidenced in all of our assigned Bible passages. In Psalms, we see God being praised and worshipped as the maker of all, thanked for the provisions and blessing that He alone authors, trusted as a strong tower in times of trouble, petitioned for His great mercy, love, and forgiveness, and begged for his sovereign justice. The Song of Solomon displays, though not explicitly mentioned, the sanctity of a marriage with God at the center; and Lamentations shows us the picture of a God who is in control despite trying circumstances. All of scripture points to the supremacy and primacy of God. I also enjoyed contemplating the psychological benefits of the Psalms as highlighted in Crutchfield's text. I know that in my own life, I am often very hesitant to pray when I am experiencing certain emotions. This is partly because I am not very emotionally expressive, and partly because I feel like I cannot talk to God when I know my feelings aren't what one might call "buttoned up and dry cleaned". Yet I've learned this …show more content…
If they are not chronologically ordered, how were the Psalms positioned as we see them today? Who was in charge of this? And should we acknowledge, teach, and apply as a study aide the psalter's human five-fold divisions that we learned about from Plummer and Crutchfield? Are we correct to teach about the literary structure of a Bible book the humans structured? While I may not know the answers to these questions, and may never know, Plummer really hit the nail on the head when he emphasized that the reading of God's word was the principal thing. Reading of God's word is better than studying what other people think about God's