Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Proper 14 C - Psalm 33:12-22


Psalm 33 continues the “trust me” theme of Genesis 15. Though kings trust in the size of their army and warriors trust in the size of their biceps the one who trusts in the Lord hopes in unfailing love. It means like Abraham we look to the mystery of the unlimited heavens and stars beyond counting to catch a glimpse of the One who looks down from on high and opens our hearts and minds in holy waiting to abiding hope until unfailing love rests upon us. It is unfailing love that satisfies our spiritual hunger, unfailing love that brings us back from the brink of death dealing despair, unfailing love that is our help and our shield in times of trouble. This would be a vain hope for deliverance if the Holy One had only looked down from heaven, and in this we rejoice, that when the time had fully come and the waiting world could wait no longer God’s unfailing love left heaven and inhabited flesh and blood so that we could know as we are known and see as we are seen. God’s word through the psalmist is God's word to us. Trust me.

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