Charles Spurgeon was once asked how a Christian could obtain thorough Bible knowledge. “There are three rules to follow in order to have a deep understanding of the Word of God. First, read the Bible. Second, read the Bible, and third, read the Bible.”

I love the Word of God! I love to read the Word, study the Word, and preach the Word. There are a lot of preachers who can certainly preach the gospel better than I can. Yet no one can preach a better gospel!

For as long as I can remember in my Christian life, I have had a daily diet of reading in the Psalms. Some years I have read through the Psalms twice a year. I have also taken a month in which I would read 5 Psalms a day. Many times I have taken a verse a day from Psalm 119 to serve as my meditation verse for the day. I am sold on daily exposure to this wonderful book in the Bible.

Did you know?

  • Psalms is the longest book in the Bible, containing 150 psalms.
  • If each psalm is considered a chapter, then Psalms contains the most chapters of any book in the Bible. The book of Isaiah, with 66 chapters, is a distant second.
  • Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, a unit of 176 verses containing more verses than thirty other entire books in the Bible. Psalm 119 is longer than Ruth, Esther, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Malachi, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, and 3, John, and Jude.
  • Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible, containing a mere two verses.
  • Psalm 117 is also, interestingly, the middle chapter of the Bible, the very center of the1189 chapters found in Genesis through Revelation.
  • Psalm 118:8 is the exact center of the 31,173 verses contained in the Scripture, the middle verse of the entire Bible.
  • Psalms is written by more authors than any other book in the Bible. It is a literary collection claiming multiple authors such as David, Asaph, the sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan, and others.
  • Psalms was a long-term project, approximately 900-1,000 years in making, requiring the longest time period to be written out of all the books in the Bible.

I encourage you to read a Psalm a day. I believe you will be blessed as I am on a daily basis.

Devotedly yours,
Bro. Tommy