Thoughts on Psalms

I was thinking today how specifically the Psalms apply to everyday life so, I went to the Internet to find sites to use as references and links that support and even don't support my thinking. The first site is www.xenos.org I am putting some quotes in from this site and hope you go there to read more.

Tim Clark from www.xenos.org said C.S.Lewis referred to the Psalms as poetry and song lyrics.

"I believe that we would do well to re-think our view of the Psalms. I would not go so far as to say that Lewis is utterly wrong in his statement-surely different genres require different ways of reading. Yet we nonetheless must be careful how we apply Lewis's insight as we approach the Psalms. Surely "reading the Psalms as poems" does not mean that they are without truth-value.^[1] On the contrary, while the Psalms may not be in the "form" of doctrinal treatise or sermon, their content is utterly theological. Indeed, Tremper Longman notes (p. 52) that the Psalms are a microcosm or summary of the rest of the Old Testament. And J. Clinton McCann asserts that "...the Psalter is not merely a collection of liturgical resources but is to be read and heard as a source of torah, 'instruction'..." (p. 18). He says that the purpose of the Psalms is to teach, to instruct about the nature of God and man, about relating to God, about theology (p. 19). "In short, the Psalter is to be read and heard as God's instruction to the faithful" (p. 27).^[2] In this ^[3] paper, then, I will suggest that the Psalms are indeed a theological work, that we can in fact discern a theological center to the Psalter, and that this center has implications not only for our hermeneutic of the Psalms, but in fact for our daily lives." Clark, Tim www.xenos.org