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The Book of Common Prayer (1979) includes a plan for reading the Book of Psalms in morning and evening installments for 30 days. I am therefore blogging through the Psalms in 60 posts.
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 226
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Judgment and mercy unite Psalms 75, 76, and 77. Divine judgment falls upon the wanton and arrogant in Psalm 75. They have the option of not being arrogant and wanton, but they have chosen to ignore warnings. God is the warrior who fights for Israel in Psalm 76; his mercy on Israel is judgment on their foes. That judgment has fallen upon Israel in Psalm 77, in which the author, an exile, asks God for another exodus as he recounts past divine mercies, such as the first exodus. That psalmist acknowledges human responsibility for the fates of the two kingdoms–Israel and Judah.
To determine moral responsibility can be difficult. One reason for this reality is the fact of our filters, which he learn, and which might be inaccurate. How can we recognize the distinction between what is really right and wrong and what we think the difference is? How can we cut through assumptions that history and science contradict and cease to call diseases sins instead? Just as we ought not to mistake non-sins for sins, we ought to refrain from committing the opposite error also.
May we succeed via grace, the only way that is possible.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
AUGUST 14, 2017 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF WILLIAM CROFT, ANGLICAN ORGANIST AND COMPOSER
THE FEAST OF JONATHAN MYRICK DANIELS, EPISCOPAL SEMINARIAN AND MARTYR
THE FEAST OF MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS, GERMAN LUTHERAN WRITER
THE FEAST OF SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST AND MARTYR
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