Psalm 49

All of us sin. God made it clear in his very first command to the ones he loves; if you disobey me you will die. But the psalmist points out, in verses 7-9, that our deaths do not atone for our sins; death is the terrible consequence of our sinful choice. Adam and Eve both died. Yet if their only failing was to take and eat of the fruit their deaths did not clear their name of that disobedience. It cost more than a sinner's life to redeem a sinner. This psalm aches for a great act of grace; grace that God promises in verse 15. It is only through God's action that we can have any hope of redemption.
It took me about 2 minutes to read this psalm.
Stuart