Pure Words [Psalm 12]

[Sung Psalm: 12]

Psalm 12 may have been written 3,000 years ago, but as with all the Psalms, it connects with every generation.

The Psalms were collected and gathered together in order to be the hymnal of God's people. If you try to get back into the mind of the original human author and understand his own personal experience, you will miss the point of the Psalm!

The Psalms were given to us as templates – as patterns – so that we might inhabit them (in Christ).Just as Israel was called to sing these Psalms in David, so we are called to sing them in Christ.

Have you had any experience with friends who betrayed you? Neighbors who lied to you? Flatterers who flattened you? People who used their tongues to cut you down?

Then Psalm 12 is for you. In every generation from David to the present, Psalm 12 is designed for the people of God to cry out to the LORD and find comfort and refuge in him.