"If only I had a curriculum! I don't know enough to teach my children well about God. I don't have anything short and memorable that sums up everything they need to know about their Savior. We're not good at memorizing things, I'm terrible at writing music and making up songs, and the Bible is so big and complicated!"
To all the moms and dads who have ever felt that way, this sermon is for you. Would you believe it if I told you that God has provided ready-made, memorable, theologically precise and aesthetically gorgeous teaching and memory aids that the most humble Christian can use to learn about Him and to teach her children about Him? That these aids have been used in every church, in every country, in every century, and that to know them is a passport to instant Christian fellowship? That you can not only know what was on Jesus' playlist, but you can sing those same songs? All of that and far, far more is to be found in the one hundred and fifty Psalms that lie before us this morning. Sisters, mothers — you have everything you need to be a theologian, right here in these Psalms. They are literally for instruction, as we will see in a moment discussing Psalm 1. Let them set your priorities in teaching your children. Let them be what your family memorizes, what you sing together, what serves as the soundtrack to your most important moments. Why are we letting Nashville, Motown, and Hollywood create the music that accompanies our lives and trains our desires when we have the songs of the great king to guide us in the ways of righteousness?
