Hey Church!
I've got this new blog.  What am I going to do with? I'm going to reflect on all the stuff: I wanted to say this past sunday but didn't have time for, I heard that you wanted to hear what I didn't cover, I wished I would have thought of before, I feel would be helpful to your understanding of scripture.  That's why I'm calling it "hindsight."
So what ... about this past Sunday?
Let me remind you of the Bible study principle I included during the sermon.
When you're reading Hebrew poetry, each verse is normally composed of two lines, line A is usually a small general kind of statement and then line B is usually a larger bigger effect!  So Robert Alter the Biblical scholar calls that, "...reading Hebrew poetry as, line A WHAT'S MORE line B!!!"  I like that because in Hebrew poetry (the psalms specifically) there are, in general, two different kinds of statements.  The first kind of statement is that line A and B are somewhat synonymous as in, "Your word is a lamp to my feet; and a light to my path."  Lamp and light are very very similar as are feet and path. So you might read that and say "What's the big deal?  What's the difference?  Why the repitition?"  If you know the formula, "line A what's more line B." it helps you understand that the flashlight of lamp to feet is transformed into the high beam of a car in a light to my path.
The second kind of statement is that line A and B are totally antithetical as in, "For they are free of the fetters of death, and their body is healthy."  So the first line speaks of death and the second speaks of health, those are totally antithetical.  But it's still, "line A what's more line B!"  So it's read, "they are free of death and what's more they are totally healthy!!!"
Hopefully this will be helpful to you as you read the Psalms.
God bless and see you this Sunday as we deal with, "Seeing what God wants me to see."
Pastor Ed