Sometimes the best way to understand something is by contrast. You can wear certain colors that make your eye color pop. A little salt is always added to anything sweet. A pool feels most amazing after some time of baking in the hot sun. Contrast helps us appreciate what something is MEANT TO BE. David Powlison is well-known for his “Anti-psalms” (like this one of Psalm 23), re-writings of familiar psalms for the purpose of contrasting a Biblical perspective with the denial of God’s person and provisions. Here’s Psalm 131 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time […]