Christian Praise: Julie and Julia The Movie
You are probably thinking to yourselves right now, What does the movie “Julie and Julia” have to do with Christian Praise? Please allow me to tell you how I personally think that these two things actually go together.
I rarely watch movies, or even television for that matter, but a friend thought I might be interested in seeing this movie so there we sat, together in my living room watching “Julie and Julia”. It is a movie based on a blog written by Julie Powell who wanted to try and make her way through Julia Childs cookbook “”Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and blog about it daily. She (Julia Powell) had an admiration for Julia Childs and the movie intertwines the lives of these two women and their cooking endeavors.
It was while watching the movie that the idea struck me: Why not write/blog through the Psalms. David is certainly one of the many writers in the Bible who is totally lovable. God himself called him the apple of his eye. Who cannot relate to David? He has moments of total abandoment to the Lord and then in another moment of weakness ends up sinning and crying out to God.
David, like many of us, is totally identified with God and yet he is soooooooooo aware of his personal downfalls and even mood swings. Paul summed this up nicely in Romans 7 when he said, “We know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate, I do, and if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work–when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law, but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7: 14-25
2 Corinthians 12:9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weakness , so that the power of Christ can work through me.
So, as Julie Powell did with Julia’s cookbook, I want to go through the Psalms with you and give you my perspective. Hopefully this will help us both to grow stronger in the Lord and in His mighty power. I don’t think I will be able to do this everyday like Julie Powell did in the movie, but I am going to try and do it as often as possible till we get through all 150 Psalms.
I will set up a special blog called “Psalms Blog” so that it will be easier to find and this will give it a special place where the Psalms are all together.
Keep your eyes open in the next few days for the first installment 
Sharron
