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Summer Psalms Introduction

Let’s be real:

I don’t know a lot about the outdoors, about flora and fauna, or about the nature of growing things.

But I do know this: Not every tree tells me the truth about itself in winter. They all essentially look the same: bare and potential and waiting. I look at our trees in their dormant days and think, “Maybe.” It’s only when we get to summer that we get to know what kind of trees they are. Are they fruitful? Are they watered and vital and ready to burst forth? Are they really alive? Sojourners, just as the trees of this season give evidence to the life God has given them, my every prayer is that these summer days will be the days of your own living testimony. I pray, along with the Psalmist, that you will be one who delights in devotion and who worships in the Word. This is why we are turning to the Psalms this summer—on Sundays together, and devotionally throughout the week—so that we might be the church whose “delight is in the LORD’s instruction” (Psalm 1:2). So let’s read these selections. Let’s pray around our kitchen tables. Let’s be shaped toward the goodness of God as He has made Himself known in these songs. If we’ll do it—if you will do it—then Scripture’s stream will water us and refresh us and grow us. With the Spirit’s help, we’ll come to know the help and the hope He has revealed in the inspired prayers of those who have gone before us. And, ultimately, we’ll glimpse Jesus…who rules and who reigns and who invites us into righteousness.

I am grateful for every Sojourn voice, every artist, and every willing helper who has made this project possible.

This summer, let’s be the church that “bears its fruit in its season” (Psalm 1:3).

Growing together with you,

Tyler