Well Lit Path Podcast

In Psalm 52, 53 & 54, we find a common theme. David speaks of the wicked and the contrasting righteous. In light of where we see the wicked and their hopelessness, their condemnation, should we not rejoice the greater knowing that that is exactly what God has saved us from? Can we look at their blindness and remember when we were in their shoes and see where God has brought us and rejoice? Sho...

Psalm 51 begins a string of psalms written by King David. This on takes us back again to David's sin with Bathsheba. In this psalm, David gives us a pattern for how we should pray when we've come to a place of repentance. What we should pray for in restoration, how we should ask for our desires to be changed, how we can move from broken fellowship to full worship. David knew what he needed. He sho...

Psalm 50 is a wonderful song penned by Asaph, one of David's worship leaders. Asaph writes of God's call to worship. why we should worship him, and then tells us that worship falls into 3 categories. The dutiful worshiper worships God because it is what is required of a Christian. The negotiating worshiper worships God so they can balance the scales of the evil in their lives. God doesn't want tha...

In Psalm 49, the psalmist gives us a glimpse into what money can actually buy for us. Hint: It's not eternity. As we look at our finances and how we think about money in our Christian lives, it is easy to mistakenly believe God wants us to have a ton of it and never worry.  The psalmist lets us know what our regards will be if we pursue money at all cost, if we make it a priority in our lives. Whe...

In Psalm 47 & 48, the psalmist continues his praise as he exalts the God of power and might, the Lord of hosts. He continues with so many explanations of God our refuge.  How is our praise life? Do we see God as awesome? Do we glorify him as such? Do we see him in the kingdoms of the earth, do we see his might in how he rules as King over all? Do we anticipate with joyous expectation his event...

In Psalm 46, we see a time in Judah's history that God won a victory on their behalf. This Psalm extols the God our refuge, our strength. We are in a daily battle. It is a struggle. God is our refuge. How much more of a refuge could he be for us if we did not turn to him and instead dwelled in him?

As we celebrate Resurrection Sunday, we thought it fitting to read a somewhat harmonized account of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ. We close with Paul's comments on the importance of the Resurrection from 1 Corinthians 15.  Without the Resurrection , we are indeed of all men most miserable. In the glory of the Resurrection, there is hope. 

In Psalm 45, the psalmist writes of his great joy, his gushing, overflowing readiness for worship. He then goes on to detail the why and the object of his worship. It is none other than the Bridegroom, the Chosen one of God. His worship was personal. His praise was pointed, specific.  ThisPsalm teaches important lessons about Christ, his majesty, his redemptive power, and our role in praising him....

In Psalm 44 the psalmist begins with remembrance of all that God has done for the nation. The Psalm quickly turns to feelings of frustration due to a perceived abandonment. Before we point fingers, how many times have we felt this way? We remember stories - and have some ourselves - of how God has worked in the past. We remember fondly the revivals of old.  God, where are you now? Where are you in...

In Psalm 42 & 43 the Psalmist seems to have been present with us in 2020 during the COVID outbreak. As we take a little walk down memory lane, we look at and apply this Psalm to that time, and draw lessons form the same. In every moment, our hope can be found in only One - Jehovah.  The One who loves, when we are unlovable, unloving. Who never changes, who is always faithful.  He will be our o...

IN Psalm 41 David reminds us of how God is for us when all others seem to be against us. I doing so he shows us the importance of forgiving those who have wronged us. Jesus stated that he had come to give life more abundant. An abundant life is one free of bitterness among many other things. Going into this Psalm I didn't think I struggled with this issue very much. The Holy Spirit showed me other...

In Psalm 40, David provides a simple guide for exponential Christian growth: Patience. More even than patience, we have to learn to lean on Him, to call out to Him. To allow him to work, to recognize and never lose what he has done for us. To see how we need him, how lost we were without him. To daily acknowledge that we have to give him our hearts, but even if our hearts are in the right place......

This week we have a first - 2 Psalms in one episode! Psalm 38 & 39 share a very important instruction amidst David's lament for his failures, for his sins. Our sins rarely happen in an instant, most often, they are the result of many dominoes of sin that compound and grow until they take us captive.  Thankfully, our Father in heaven's love never changes or diminishes. je is always ready with f...

In Psalm 37, David challenges us with getting angry with the wicked and maybe even angry at God when we see them just sinning and yet prospering. Why do we suffer and they seem to not? Why do bad things seem to happen to us? Loss, disease, struggles. What is our hope?  Stop. Trust. Delight. There is so much we can do, we can let God do, to get through these feelings - and to get through this seaso...

David takes us from the wickedness of the wicked to the goodness of God in a single Psalm. One of the most beautiful things we see about God's holiness in this Psalm is how he blesses our sacrifices with and abundance only a God who is above all else and all others can.  When we acknowledge his holiness and sacrifice our own desires - when we sacrifice self because he is holy and deserving of sacr...

Psalm 35 finds David calling on God to fight against his enemies for him. There is a great lesson here in how we can be hesitant at times to ask for the same.  So often we want God to just keep our "enemies" of temptation merely at arms length from us, instead of asking him to vanquish them violently from our lives.  While David speaks of flesh and blood enemies, the truths in this Psalm are appli...

This episode is crazy! Well at least it is an account of something crazy. We find ourselves in Psalm 34 and David is praying God as he so loves to do. Ever made a bad decision for a good reason? When the outcome was favorable by God's grace, where did we place the credit? David writes this Psalm on the heels of a bad decision he made for a good reason that he wound up needing deliverance from. His...

Psalm 33 teaches about God's glory, his awesome power and how our joy can only be full in him. Do we rejoice? Really rejoice? Does it spill out of us like water from an overfilled glass, splashing everything and everyone around us to where they can't help but fell joy as well? Do we paint an attractive picture of the joy we have in Christ to the point that others want to experience it, partake in...

Happy New Year! As we welcome 2024, there can't possibly be e better way to start than to be reminded of God's grace and mercy in our lives.  David in Psalm 32 is coming off of a period of egregious sin and trying to hide it, keep it. Only in the acknowledgement of that sin was he able to find relief and joy, leading him to praise the One who forgave him and glorify his name in song. Immediately f...

Merry Christmas!! As a gift from the podcast team, Tom reads the Christmas Story from Luke 2. We pray you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a special time to remember the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Can we be like the shepherds and proclaim our Savior to the world?

Psalm 31 sees David in the midst of betrayal and abandonment by those he had trusted. This causes him to turn to God. How often do we look at the season we are in and feel betrayed? Betrayed by our expectations, betrayed by people we've trusted. Who is our first call? Who do we run to when all others have failed? The truth that echoes this Psalm is that in every season, our God is in control. Beca...

David comes off the heals of a crushing failure in his life that had drastic consequences in Psalm 30. It is easy sometimes to look at the Lord's blessing as personal accomplishments. God warned Israel against this attitude, and David feels the weight of the reality of what happens when we do just that. When we fail do we turn to God immediately, or do we try to figure it out on our own? If we wer...

David pens a Psalm dedicated to the magnificence of God in a storm he is witness to. How does this translate to praise in our lives? What is the message that God has for us here? More than the storm is the God of the storm that works in it. Do we acknowledge that God is the master of the storm? In this Psalm it is difficult not to praise the same way David did - praising the Lord in the storm as t...

David goes once again from a low to a high in this week's Psalm as he engages God in prayer.  DO we pray often enough? For the right things? Do we feel God is silent sometimes?  We're not alone. What we can find solace in is that while God may at times seem silent, God is always there. Sometimes his silence is teaching us patience, sometimes his silence is really just a whisper we can' hear becaus...

Psalm 27 we meet David in a season where he is on the run from Saul. While he could be complaining and asking God why, we find instead him reaffirming his trust in his Deliverer and he gives us some instruction and insight on what to expect when we follow the One who delights in saving us from every battle.