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ReOrientation: 150 Days of Psalms (Psalm 148)
This is the final week in our series 150 Days of Psalms. Today's teaching is by Amanda Opelt. Amanda is a Ministry Leadership Team member at theHeart Church in Boone NC. She is also a singer, songwriter. Visit her website here.
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
"The use of these 'psalms of darkness' may be judged by the world to be acts of unfaith and failure, but for the trusting community, their use is an act of bold faith, albeit a transformed faith. It is an act of bold faith on the one hand, because it insists that the world must be experienced as it really is and not in some pretended way. On the other hand, it is bold because it insists that all such experiences of disorder are a proper subject for discourse with God. Nothing is out of bounds, nothing is precluded or inappropriate.”
"To withhold parts of life from that conversation is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God. But such faith is indeed a transformed faith. It is faith in a very differed God, one who is present in, participating in, and attentive of life. The presupposition and affirmation of these psalms is that precisely in such deathly places as presented in these psalms, new life is given by God."
RE-ORIENTATION
Psalm 13: "But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation. I will sing the Lord's praise, for He has been good to me."
Psalm 57: "Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth."
Psalm 69: "But as for me, afflicted and in pain–may your salvation, God, protect me. I will praise God's name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 146-150
"The transition marked by this upright line of a letter is always abrupt. It indicates that somewhere, somehow an invisible line has been crossed and the focus of the lament has turned from the self to Elsewhere. Sometimes it seems simply a matter of exhaustion. I cannot bear the burden of my sin any longer. I have not more tears left to weep, I have no more outrage left to voice. At other times the person lamenting simply seems to wake up. It is the line that must be crossed from the sorrowful self-centered 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine' passages to the praise dominated 'You' verses when it has been at least realized that God is faithful."
MICHAEL CARD
"Like some sort of interior spiritual San Andreas Fault line, it represents the precise point where two continents have been rubbing up against one another - the huge island of self and vast uncharted and unknowable continent of God's Presence. It is the line of momentous movement from 'me' to 'You.' It is a signpost along the journey of the psalms, from Torah obedience (Psalm 1) to worship (Psalm 150)."
PSALM 148
Do I love God's presence?
Do I love God's law?
Do I love God's fame?
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By theHeartThis is the final week in our series 150 Days of Psalms. Today's teaching is by Amanda Opelt. Amanda is a Ministry Leadership Team member at theHeart Church in Boone NC. She is also a singer, songwriter. Visit her website here.
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
"The use of these 'psalms of darkness' may be judged by the world to be acts of unfaith and failure, but for the trusting community, their use is an act of bold faith, albeit a transformed faith. It is an act of bold faith on the one hand, because it insists that the world must be experienced as it really is and not in some pretended way. On the other hand, it is bold because it insists that all such experiences of disorder are a proper subject for discourse with God. Nothing is out of bounds, nothing is precluded or inappropriate.”
"To withhold parts of life from that conversation is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God. But such faith is indeed a transformed faith. It is faith in a very differed God, one who is present in, participating in, and attentive of life. The presupposition and affirmation of these psalms is that precisely in such deathly places as presented in these psalms, new life is given by God."
RE-ORIENTATION
Psalm 13: "But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation. I will sing the Lord's praise, for He has been good to me."
Psalm 57: "Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth."
Psalm 69: "But as for me, afflicted and in pain–may your salvation, God, protect me. I will praise God's name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 146-150
"The transition marked by this upright line of a letter is always abrupt. It indicates that somewhere, somehow an invisible line has been crossed and the focus of the lament has turned from the self to Elsewhere. Sometimes it seems simply a matter of exhaustion. I cannot bear the burden of my sin any longer. I have not more tears left to weep, I have no more outrage left to voice. At other times the person lamenting simply seems to wake up. It is the line that must be crossed from the sorrowful self-centered 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine' passages to the praise dominated 'You' verses when it has been at least realized that God is faithful."
MICHAEL CARD
"Like some sort of interior spiritual San Andreas Fault line, it represents the precise point where two continents have been rubbing up against one another - the huge island of self and vast uncharted and unknowable continent of God's Presence. It is the line of momentous movement from 'me' to 'You.' It is a signpost along the journey of the psalms, from Torah obedience (Psalm 1) to worship (Psalm 150)."
PSALM 148
Do I love God's presence?
Do I love God's law?
Do I love God's fame?