Thursday, January 26, 2017

Epiphany 4 A - Psalm 15

Psalm 15
These are not requirements for entering the tent of the Lord but a description of what happens to those who the holy hill their home. Ones who slander and do evil to friends, despising their neighbors, who charge for favors and take bribes to pervert justice, prefer mansions in the valley to a tent on the hill. Doing what is right and speaking the truth from the heart, walking the blameless way, is produced by close proximity to the One who pitches the tent in the first place. It is not a heavenly hill, but it is none-the-less a “hill far away”. The One who really was blameless stood by his oath to save and in his suffering death made the hill where the wicked had their way, holy. There is a transformation then which takes place when one consistently sees the sunrise from that Holy Hill and days are spent not in pursuing selfish desire but in sacrificial love, as in standing by an oath, even when it hurts.

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