{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 116","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":132,"description":"Psalm 116: The Love That Begins with a Reason\n\"I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.\" There is something almost scandalously honest about this opening — the psalmist does not love God in the abstract, as a philosophical proposition, but because God did something specific: He listened. The sorrows of death had wrapped around him, the pains of hell had taken hold, and in that drowning moment he called out, and God inclined His ear. That word — inclined — suggests God leaning in, turning His head, the way you bend toward someone who is speaking very quietly. And the response is not a theology lecture but a love song. \"Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.\" Then comes the line that has echoed through centuries of funerals and martyrdoms: \"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.\" Not precious as in valuable, but precious as in costly — it matters to God, it is not cheap to Him, when one of His own passes through that door. And so the psalmist asks the only question worth asking after such a rescue: \"What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?\" The answer: take the cup of salvation and call upon His name. The response to grace is not payment but more receiving.\n00:00 I Love the Lord\n00:15 The Sorrows of Death\n00:25 Return Unto Thy Rest\n00:40 Delivered from Death and Tears\n00:50 I Believed, Therefore I Spoke\n01:00 What Shall I Render?\n01:15 Precious Death of His Saints\n01:30 The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving\n01:50 In the Courts of the Lord","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}