Psalm
94. Happy are those whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your
law.
I am acutely aware as I meditate on
this Psalm and try to express what comes up for me that I have been in an
uncentered place in my spirit of late. I’ve been irritable and worried. I’ve
tried to control things that are not mine to control. I’ve not been generous in
my thoughts toward others. So you see I can relate well to a psalmist who sees
the evil in the world outside of himself, in the other. They do evil. They are
arrogant and prosper. They are selfish fools. God will get them. It’s an
alluring attitude.
I need to remember, however, that the
psalmist grew up in a time and place where society was organized in tribes, and
might made right. He was not likely sitting at the breakfast table with silver
and cream, whining about the world from a place of relative extreme wealth.
Dear God give me humility and
perspective. “Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach
out of your law.”
—
Charles
Rus
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