Who Is God in the Psalms: Personal Devotional Verse

By Connie J. French

I was fascinated when I started to read sacred literature, especially its poetry, as an unburdening of the deepest emotions and highest aspirations of our common humanity. I could feel the heartbeat of the writer. I could answer with my own tears or ecstasy. I could experience our common humanity, through another’s spiritual eyes.

But what was amazing from the lyrics of the Biblical Psalmists was the way in which they accepted the whole of life, their common humanity, from the perspective of being ‘in God’. All existed as a fact. They just lived life as it is, with both its complaints and its celebrations, in raw reality, within the operation of God.

In my reading of the Psalms I have asked ‘Who is God’ to the Psalmist; and in my responsive verse I reflect back to God, who I have heard the Psalmist believes God to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Feb 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669889526

Connie J. French

Connie grew up in the cultural community and educational institutions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She became a primary school teacher then married, had three daughters, and earnt a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from London University before teaching Biblical Studies to adult and year 12 students. She studied Islam and Arabic and led tours to the Middle East. She also tutored children in remedial reading, and completed two educational degrees from Monash University. For a short time she was an assistant chaplain at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, after training in counselling. Her final degree was an MA from Latrobe University with a thesis on ‘Accessing soteriology in the Gospel of John’. She lives in the New South Wales Southern Highlands.

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