The Messiah and the Order of Melchizedek
             Many times I have wanted to pour my heart out to God and have struggled with finding the adequate words to express my deep emotion. In the back of my mind, I know that God already understands what I'm desperately trying to communicate, but there is a need within me to write it down and see it on paper. Inevitably, I turn to the Psalms and within its 150 hymns I find the inspiration and comfort I have been searching for. This need to cry out to God, to communicate with Him, to essentially worship, is not exclusive to me only. David, Moses, Solomon, Ethan, Asaph, and Korah, the psalmists, whose psalms are found within the book of Psalms, were inspired by God to emotionally communicate with Him. God designed us to be emotional beings. Not only did He give us logic and a mind, he also gave us a heart, so that we might feel. Martin Luther, in some of his writing, expresses similar thoughts:
             Where does one find finer words of joy than in the psalms of praise and thanksgiving? There you look into the hearts of all saints, as into fair and pleasant gardens, yes, as into heaven itself. There you see what fine and pleasant flowers of the heart spring up from all sorts of fair and happy thoughts toward God, because of his blessings. On the other hand, where do you find deeper, more sorrowful, more pitiful words of sadness than in the psalms of lamentation? There again you look into the hearts of all the saints, as into death, yes, as into hell itself. How gloomy and dark it is there, with all kinds of troubled foreboding about the wrath of God! So, too, when they speak of fear and hope, they use such words that no painter could so depict for you fear or hope, and no Cicero or other orator so portray them.
             And that they speak these words to God and with God, this, I repeat, is the best thing of all. This gives the words double earnestness and life...Hence it is that the Psalte...