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What I love about Psalms is the schizophrenia displayed by David. He jumps from depression to praise to fear to awe to arrogance to confidence to every other emotion known to man. The realrawness of his heart is open for all to see.

The admirable thing here isn't merely the opening for all, however, but rather it's David's continual struggle to record his struggle to closeness. The overarching theme of the Psalms is David's desire to worship in word, to draw closer and express a love that is always at the periphery of his mind if not the forefront. In struggle or otherwise, the wanting to draw close never ceases.

People have praised David's humanity, but no common humanity I know has the everwanting closeness expressed in Psalms.