Why would the people of Israel sing a song about lowliness & contentment on their way to the feast?

Because sometimes we act like "unweaned babies." (See Ps. 131:2.)

Preached by Matt Boulter on 10-30-11.

Psalm 130 admits that in our journey to the temple, in our journey to Christ and into God, sometimes we stumble. Sometimes we fall. Sometimes we fall hard, and sometimes we fall into a pit.

Few pits are as traumatic and difficult to escape than the pit of shame.

Preached by Matt Boulter on 10-23-2011.

With Psalm 128 we continued our "journey" to the temple, looking at these ancient "travel songs," Psalms 120 - 134, which the people of God would chant on their pilgrimage to the temple during the three great feasts of Israel.

In this Psalm we encounter the language of "walking:"

"Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,

who walks in his ways!" (ESV)

In Psalm 127, we see a common biblical pattern.

Time and time again, in places like Genesis 11 (the story of the Tower of Babel) and 2 Samuel 7 (King David and the temple), we see people like you and I trying to build. Trying to build a house, even a house "for God."

And yet ... time and time again, God comes to us and turns the tables. "You would build me a house?" God says. "I am going to build you a house, and it is a house made of living stones, a house made of people, a house of relationship."