Let me just begin this post by saying that I am beyond grateful to the Lord for placing our family in a church that does value the Psalms enough that we sing some every Lord's day in public worship. But it is hard to see them not valued as they should be and to see man's word put on the same level as God's. Because of this I've been led to pray regularly about this subject, and to read up more on it, and am more convicted than ever of Psalm singing. The Lord has given me such a love for His Psalter and I'm so thankful to Him for that. So here are various things I have read and saved....
"In Calvin's Geneva, the metrical Psalms became the staple of family and private worship, as well as the Lord's day liturgy, and soon many knew the Psalter by heart. And as for the congregation, a visitor....found that the singing of French liturgy moved him to tears of joy."
The Songs of Zion
"'No single book of Scripture, not even the New Testament, has, perhaps, ever taken such a hold in the heart of Christendom. None, if we may dare judge, unless it be the Gospels, has had so large an influence in molding the affections,sustaining the hopes, purifying the faith of believers.' Our reformed fathers and their spiritual progenitors in the early period of the Church, loved and cherished the Book of Psalms with an intensity that is perhaps beyond our comprehension."
The Songs of Zion
Our Lord loved the Psalter. He rejoiced in it and derived comfort from it at every crucial point in his life upon earth. So it is sad indeed that the Psalms have been shut out of so many of our churches. "The latter days of our Lord were full of the Psalms. He died with a Psalm on his lips." Should our lives not also be full of the Psalms? As our Lord chose to die with the words of a Psalm on his lips, should we not then so live?"
The Songs of Zion
"To know and love the Psalms was the mark of a protestant."
The Songs of Zion
