July 4

<p>Psalms 86-89 We are in the Wisdom Stream reading from the New Living Translation this week. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</span></p> <blockquote> <div>God, all we can say is that you are good and you are good all the time and that you are good to us.  Amen</div> </blockquote> <p>86 - This is a Psalm from King David who had been through it all, seen it all, won it all, lost it all, enjoyed is all, suffered through it all and brought it all back home.  David's life models that we can take it all to God.  The worship in this Psalm is among the best.  The pleading, the longing, the exalting of God, the call for learning and cleansing and reassurance and favor.  David asked for it all from God and God showed Himself to be true.</p> <div>87 - The glory of Jerusalem. Those who love God are drawn there.  People of other countries relish the place.  The Psalm can also be about the glory of the Church that was founded by Christ Jesus 900+ years after this Psalm was written.  And v. 6 can be symbolic of the Lamb's book of Life - in whose names are found the souls who are going to live eternally as citizens of Heaven.</div> <div>88 - is the saddest of the Psalms.  There is no resolution.  There is no relief or let up from the suffering.  The suffering is prolonged and terrible. The loneliness of it could have even been the worst part. This soul feels like everyone is gone and that God has ditched him as well.  The reason this Psalm is part of the the Psalms is because even when you are feeling this way, God is there in the middle of it all too getting each of us through it.</div> <div>89 - This is God's promise that David's throne will be an eternal throne.  The Psalm is written by Ethan the son of Kushaiah who is mentioned in I Chronicles <span class= "aBn"><span class="aQJ">15:17</span></span>.   This