The Forward Day by Day Meditation for June 5, 2016 - Third Sunday of Pentecost

Psalm 146:7 The LORD sets the prisoners free; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down. 

Perhaps you have felt the anger of having your land taken from you or perhaps you have only read about such things. Perhaps you have known the kind of hunger that changes the chemistry of your brain, or perhaps you have only seen real starvation in pictures. Perhaps you have been in forced imprisonment or perhaps your primary experience of prisons and jails is from a television screen.

There is an anger that can destroy us when we consider the worst kinds of human behavior. Depression can sink in. Oppression and suffering feel overwhelming to our souls—common themes in the psalms. But there are also verses that tell of a God who delivers. The passion for God’s justice isn’t precisely like the anger we typically know. It is more powerful, like a white-hot holy light that burns with the sacred justice of God.

 

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