rescue & resurrection
Posted by greglarson in theology at 6:50 am | 
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Psalm 69:30 - 31 Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving. For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing an ox or presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.
Eugene Peterson in his slender, but wonderful book — Praying with the Psalms - says this:
‘The great songs of praise are sung by those who have known the intensity of pain, the desperation of doubt, and the abyss of rejection. To all such people, God’s salvation & love are experienced as rescue & resurrection.’
Verses 32 & 33 The humble will see their God at work and be glad. Let all who seek God’s help live in joy. For the LORD hears the cries of his needy ones…
Prayer:
I praise you, merciful Father, that you have not led me in a way bound by grim duty & joyless servitude, but in one that, though it traverses ‘the valley of the shadow’, always leads to ‘the house of the Lord’. (Psalm 23:4, 6). Amen.
