🎤 Psalm 49 Song - Wealth and Death
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Autumn is a melancholy time of year. If you've been watching my weekly videos, you will have noticed the lovely colours of leaves growing a darker red and gold each week. But with this beauty comes an ever-increasing sense of finality. Things are essentially preparing for death. Animals store nuts in caches, pile on body fat before their winter sleep, trees withdraw their support for their leaves, which fall sadly to the ground. Annuals wither, stung by the shock of frost; perennials, too, left with only the hope to return in spring. The sky is constantly overcast, cold rains fall, the distant woods look like dark bones on the horizon.
It's also a time when, depending on your tradition, you remember the saints who came before you, or if you're outside of the faith, perhaps you fear Halloween's ghouls of death.
It seems an appropriate time to consider our own lives. It seems proper to stop and contemplate the way we're living. There is no better time to weigh our values against the truth of eternity.
In Psalm 49, those ancient musicians known as the Sons of Korah, sing about this very thing. They refer to it as a riddle: Why is it, they ask, that wealth is dispensed the way it is? Why do the affluent often believe that their riches can save them, or that it somehow sets them apart from the poor?
This Psalm reminds us that we are very much like the animals: our bodies will die, and spend the rest of eternity rotting away in the grave. Our wealth cannot save us from this inevitability.
The pull to earn more money, to acquire more belongings, to achieve higher status, to win coveted fame, and to keep more for oneself: this desire is very strong. However true wealth should be measured carefully, sensibly. We should examine our investments not by what we have, but by what we do, by who we are, by how we love.
A person's greed for wealth will be the root of their downfall. This Psalm teaches us that the purpose of one's life on earth is to enhance spiritual development and to prepare for the world to come.
Let me be direct: where does your treasure lay? Are you storing it up on earth, where moth and rust destroy, or where thieves break in and steal, or rather, are you saving it away in heaven, where it is a credit to you forever?
Amen.
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Psalm 49
The Folly of Trust in Riches
To the leader. Of the Korahites. A Psalm.
1 Hear this, all you peoples;
give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
2 both low and high,
rich and poor together.
3 My mouth shall speak wisdom;
the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.
5 Why should I fear in times of trouble,
when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,
6 those who trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?
7 Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life,
there is no price one can give to God for it.
8 For the ransom of life is costly,
and can never suffice,
9 that one should live on for ever
and never see the grave.
10 When we look at the wise, they die;
fool and dolt perish together
and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their graves are their homes for ever,
their dwelling-places to all generations,
though they named lands their own.
12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.
13 Such is the fate of the foolhardy,
the end of those who are pleased with their lot.
Selah
14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,
and their form shall waste away;
Sheol shall be their home.
15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me.
Selah
16 Do not be afraid when some become rich,
when the wealth of their houses increases.
17 For when they die they will carry nothing away;
their wealth will not go down after them.
18 Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy
-for you are praised when you do well for yourself-
19 they will go to the company of their ancestors,
who will never again see the light.
20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.
New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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But the Word of the Lord endures forever
Amen!
Truth of life Bible is answer for all our question. So beautiful u have explained in song Jason
Beautiful. Praise God for your tslent tyo put psalms to music and song!
I LIKE THIS ONE KEEPER YES
Wow! Thank you!
You are very welcome, sister
Thank you very much! Very profound!
Thanks brother.
I've just been going straight through the Psalms. Glad I found this channel. Makes the process way more enjoyable. Maybe the most profound one so far.
I'm glad you found it too!
Amen.
Jason this is one of your best songs. I really love the way the music matches the meaning of the psalm. It's very clever. Well done! Linda
Love it...hauntingly beautiful. I can imagine a selah with a cello.
This is still beautiful such a grand voice worshipping our creator just as be intended it to be !!!! HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH
Beautiful and thought-provoking. How often people are afraid to consider the idea of their own mortality. Ignore it. Avoid it. Afraid. But how true, the end of a life will come Inevitably to us all. In Judaism, those loved ones who have passed on are remembered with honour not in November together with all others, but on their "Yahrzeit". The anniversary of their death. A candle is lit for 24 hours next to a photo of the loved one, special prayers are said and the loved one is held in blessed memory. This too reminds us of our mortality, keeping one humble. How much better to lead lives that will be remembered in honour, than to store up riches in this world, which we cannot take with us.
How precious however, knowing that if we accept the gift of salvation through Yeshua (Jesus) the Son of our Creator, that we will have lives immortal, if we remain faithful to the end. This is then not the end, but the beginning of something greater.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.” CS Lewis, Weight of Glory
love the low bass beat. lol JanehelenS ... is so deep
wow
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