Are the Promises in the Psalms for Me?

As noted in my previous post, I love the Psalms!  That love has grown greatly over the last fifteen years.  If I was given the choice of keeping only one book from all of the Bible, I think it would have to be the Psalms that I would choose.  The Gospel is all over its pages!  God's perfection and man's depravity are both displayed and explained as clearly as anywhere in all of Scripture.  My heart resonates so strongly with David's and the other writers' in their struggle with sin, doubt, fluctuating emotions...  The Psalms, probably more than any other Bible passages, serve to shape my own prayers.

The promises throughout the Psalms are amazing!  We are told God is our Rock, our Strength, Fortress, Deliverer, Shield, our Stronghold!  We are told we can "call upon The Lord who is worthy to be praised and we are saved from our enemies!"  We are told that "he rescued me because he delighted in me!"  And He has "equipped me with strength for the battle." (all from Psalm 18)  At least 127 times in the Psalms, more than any other book in the Bible, we are told about and assured of God's steadfast love.

I love the words of the Psalms! I want them to be for me, not just for David!  I have thought they are, and passages like Romans 4:16 (I share the faith of Abraham) and Galatians 3:29 help to confirm that thinking: "And if you are Christ 's, then you are Abraham' s offspring, heirs according to promise."  Also, many of the promises made to the psalmists are given again to New Testament believers.  But today I was referred to these words in Isaiah, and I was encouraged afresh!

"Come, EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?  Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.  Incline your ear and come to me; hear that your soul may live; and I WILL MAKE WITH YOU (everyone who thirsts) AN EVERLASTING COVENANT, MY STEADFAST, SURE LOVE FOR DAVID."  -Isaiah 55:1-3

Everyone who thirsts!  That sure includes me!!!  I will continue reading the Psalms with increasing assurance and delight!

And I will also read praying that God makes all of my family, immediate and extended, very thirsty!