Pause:
The Songs of Ascents (psalms 120-134) are pilgrimage songs.
Why not make your own 15 day ‘pilgrimage’ with them?
Psalm 120:
The Life of Faith is often opposed by lying lips.
It is the way of peace in the midst of hostility.
Psalm 121:
Yahweh is with us on our pilgrimage.
Look to him on the journey and you will not stumble.
Psalm 122:
Pilgrims arrive with joy in Jerusalem.
How much more will this be true when we enter the heavenly city?
Psalm 123:
Yahweh, how your servants look to you in need.
We lift our eyes to you.
Grant us grace.
Lord, grant us grace.
Psalm 124:
The Lord is for His people.
We are like birds that can tweet in freedom, having escaped captivity.
Psalm 125:
Stirred not shaken!
Trusting in Yahweh means not being shaken.
Looking to Yahweh means being stirred to do his work.
Psalm 126:
The Lord has done great things for us.
For our tears will turn to laughter.
We are children of the dream.
Psalm 127:
Both God’s house and our homes need to be built by God.
Both can be broken by human vanity.
Psalm 128:
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh; those who walk in His ways.
The Lord bless you from Zion.
Psalm 129:
A reminder to pray for those ploughed into the earth by others.
The ploughed will reap, rather than those who plough.
Psalm 130:
Cry, wait, hope.
Heard, loved, redeemed.
Psalm 131:
A content weaned child.
The ultimate goal of intentional Christian spirituality.
Psalm 132:
The Psalms contain many themes.
David and Zion are key and in this psalm their stories intertwine.
Psalm 133:
Living together as God’s united people is good.
It is the pleasant way into Yahweh’s blessing from Zion.
Psalm 134:
Praise the Lord.
Lift your hands.
May Yahweh bless you from Zion.
