Deeper Places Quotes

“The entrusting of oneself to God is the essence of worship.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“What God wants to see in prayer is our willingness to trust in him.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“They not only give us permission to grieve but also encourage us to express our grief fully before God. As we do this, we can begin to appropriate the compassion of the God who is no stranger to suffering. In this way, the psalms show us how to suffer. They call us to cry on God’s shoulder and exhaust our grief in the presence of the most empathetic listener in the universe.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“To be truly grateful, to allow ourselves to feel indebted to any other person and most of all to God, we have to be willing to give up the masquerade of independence.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“Throughout the psalms, a profound process of transferal takes place. One yoke is replaced with another. The exodus experience is enacted over and over again. The yoke of slavery is replaced by the yoke of God.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“Where it seems that faith was being weakened by the strain, it was in fact being strengthened by the exertion.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“The fact that the psalms were written as songs should serve to underline the nature of their purpose. Music is the language of the heart, and it was for this language that the psalms were written. They were written not just to tell us about God but to draw us into an encounter with God. In this sense, the psalms both exemplify and potentially impart the very thing that the rest of the Bible directs us toward as the ultimate goal of human existence: a love relationship with God in which we glorify and enjoy God forever.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms

“As long as the Good News remains a matter of abstract facts, it will have little more effect on your life than your insurance policy has on the way you drive.”
― Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places: Experiencing God in the Psalms