{"id":4484,"date":"2024-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/january-25\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:07:25","slug":"january-25","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/january-25\/","title":{"rendered":"January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insight from Psalms 32:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPsalm 32 features the first appearance of [the Hebrew word translated \u2018Blessed\u2019] since [Ps] 1:1 and 2:12. This word \u2026 likely relates to the blessing associated with the eschatological age. Here, we learn the eschatological blessing for God\u2019s people connects to the king\u2019s confession of sins and his reception of forgiveness (30:1\u20135) and the people\u2019s prayers to Yahweh, apparently based on the king\u2019s deliverance (30:6). The capstone psalm (Ps 33) repeats themes seen in earlier capstone psalms. The king speaks of Yahweh\u2019s creation of the earth (vv. 6\u20137). All people should fear Yahweh because \u2018he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm\u2019 (vv. 8\u20139). Verse 10 speaks of Yahweh bringing \u2018the counsel of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the nations<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to nothing\u2019 and \u2018the plans of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the people<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 to frustration. This reminds the reader of the two groups focused upon in Ps 2:1. Psalm 33:12 again features [the Hebrew word translated] \u2018Blessed.\u2019 Here [blessed] refers to the blessedness of the nation Yahweh chooses: \u2018Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.\u2019 This likely refers to the eschatological blessing resting on those who find refuge in the king.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4484","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}