Psalm 146

This is the second day that You have led me to this Psalm...it has been 2 days of seeking answers in my desire to be in right standing with the Catholic faith, the faith that I was born into from my father’s side of the family and practiced up until the dissolution of a 24 year marriage. Yesterday my parents told me that my brothers’ marriage annulment went through and that he was thinking of leaving the church because of it (his ex wife of their 24 marriage started the proceedings)...ironically I had just looked into it that morning. Of my six siblings, 4 of us are divorced, products of a generational, dysfunctional family history on my mother’s side, it is hard to show love when you have been shown little love in your own life. My Mother is my mother.. enough said and I love and accept her just the way she is.

Now my question is do I place my trust in Your mercy alone or do I look to man, the Pope, to forgive my sins? I believe that You have answered my question....I need to trust only in You and not in man....not even the best of men! I praise Your holy name and thank You for the grace given in Jesus to all who accept His salvation. I am totally unworthy BUT You are! Help me to accept Your forgiveness..

Psalm 146, a psalm of descriptive praise, is part of the grand pinnacle of praise in this book of praises. The structure of the poem is as follows: (1) a call for a life of praise to God; (2) a warning against putting one’s trust even in good people; (3) a blessing on the one who finds help in God; (4) a description of the wonderful works of God in the lives of His people; (5) a call to praise God the great King.

Psalm 146

¹ Praise the Lord! 
Praise the Lord, O my soul! 
² While I live I will praise the Lord; 
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 
³ Do not put your trust in princes, 
Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 
⁴ His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; 
In that very day his plans perish. 
⁵ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, 
Whose hope is in the Lord his God, 
⁶ Who made heaven and earth, 
The sea, and all that is in them; 
Who keeps truth forever, 
⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed, 
Who gives food to the hungry. 
The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners. 
⁸ The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; 
The Lord raises those who are bowed down; 
The Lord loves the righteous. 
⁹ The Lord watches over the strangers; 
He relieves the fatherless and widow; 
But the way of the wicked He turns upside down. 
¹⁰ The Lord shall reign forever— 
Your God, O Zion, to all generations. 
Praise the Lord!