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POST XLVII OF LX
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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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Psalms 116, 117, and 118 are texts of thanksgiving. Psalm 116 follows recovery from a serious illness. The author understands that God cares for and about him. The psalmist is quite unlike the benighted man of Psalms 14 and 53, who thinks that God does not care. The author of Psalm 117, the briefest of all the psalms, calls on all the nations to praise God. God, he writes, is faithful forever. Psalm 118 might follow a military victory or the return from the Babylonian Exile and the building of the Second Temple.
It is better to take refuge in the LORD
than to trust in mortals;
it is better to take refuge in the LORD
than to trust in the great.
–Psalm 118:8-9, TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (1985)
Do we affirm that in words and deeds? That is certainly the intention of the author of Psalm 116. His is a proper attitude toward God.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
AUGUST 20, 2017 COMMON ERA
PROPER 15: THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST, YEAR A
THE FEAST OF JOHN BAJUS, U.S. LUTHERAN MINISTER AND HYMN TRANSLATOR
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