Singing Psalm 19 to be without a word
- Karen Wallace
- Jan 6, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 6, 2025
Singing Psalm 19 to be taught without a word
As Creator, the Lord set all things in place to be perfectly suited to your needs. He made the sun thrilled to run its daily race without a word as an athlete joyfully prepared. Nothing outdoors can hide from its heat.
What image is more filled with hope and glory than that of a bridegroom emerging from his room? He has prepared and has plans for life together with his bride. He made the sun to emerge this way so that you can do whatever it is you get to do under the sun each day.
The Lord is majestic but also lowly and gentle for your good so that you can hide in him and not from him. He knows your frame. He is rich in mercy. Your maker is your husband, the glorious bridegroom of his bride, the church.
Singing Psalm 19 to live without a word
As Covenant-Head, God, the Father plans that your life be under his perfect law of love that Jesus fulfilled perfectly for you, that the Holy Spirit breathed into you to fill your heart, enlighten your eyes, revive your soul, and that brings great and pure delight and reward for those who live by it.
You desire it more than gold. It is sweeter than honey. It is written on your heart.
Singing Psalm 19 to be free without a word
As Redeemer, he keeps you from hidden stain, from sins you commit without a word. He prevents them from ruling within you so that you are completely blameless in his sight. He is your rock and your redeemer of truth that sets you free. He guides your inmost thoughts and makes the words you utter pleasing to him. You win over those who don’t believe the word without a word by your respectful and pure conduct.
“Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.” ~ Ecclesiastes 5:2
What are you focused on?
Try stepping outdoors, perhaps without a word.
Look up and out.
When you come indoors, perhaps without a word, look into his words.
“In keeping them is great reward.” ~ Psalm 19:11b
January 3-6, 2023
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Heart ♥️ reflection
November 5, 2024
Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” ~ Luke 9:62
Question: How do I stop looking back when my thoughts, words, and tone displease the Lord?
Heart reflection: If I think I’m all in for Jesus and nothing comes before him, it is disheartening when I respond to another’s behavior with words and a tone that Jesus would condemn. Yet when I come to him, he turns and rescues me instead. He forgives me. It’s not trusting his care and redemption that makes me self-protective, self-consumed, unfit for his kingdom. The power of his care to forgive me much provides the way out of looking back and giving in to impulsive knee jerk reactions. Awareness of his forgiving presence gives me pause when triggered to make a new choice to love like Jesus loves me.
“O let the words I speak
Be pleasing in Your sight;
And may my inmost thoughts
Be in Your judgment right.
O LORD, You are a Rock to me;
You have redeemed and set me free.” ~ Psalm 19:14
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The Psalms—Q&A
And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” ~ 1 Samuel 17:26
How can singing Psalm 19 help me grow in my affection for God and in my connection with others?
Is the universe out to get something from you and return nothing, as you live only for this life entrusting yourself to fallible humans? Or is the God who created it (and you) sure to be with you, his child, whereby you have all good things both in this life and in the neverending life to come?
“O let the words I speak
Be pleasing in Your sight;
And may my inmost thoughts
Be in Your judgment right.
O LORD, You are a Rock to me;
You have redeemed and set me free.” ~ Psalm 19:14
Every time I delight in seeing a hummingbird feed or hearing the song of a black-capped chickadee or witnessing a flock of mallard ducks waddle, fly, and swim, and I don’t acknowledge and immediately return thanks to the one who made them, I’m living in a self-absorbed daze with blunted sensibilities. Did I bring those about myself? If not, their source must be beautiful to create such beauty for us and is worthy of our admiration and worship! Can you begin to imagine what will be done for the men and women who come to Jesus, keep his word, and seek his beauty? Who resist the deception of becoming nothing for nothing but to face the eternal wrath of God? Who die to themselves in this life with their supernatural eye on Jesus? Who trust in Jesus, the one who calls them friends? Who make every effort to enter through his narrow door with gratitude for his grace and mercy, his protection and provision, his creation and redemption?
“The precepts of the LORD are right,
And fill the heart with great delight.
“With warnings, they your servant guard;
In keeping them is great reward.” ~ Psalm 19:8, 11
Engage and grow together!
“Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.” ~ Proverbs 27:17
August 8, 2025
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