SCRIPTURE: Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising. Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano! Psalm 33:1-2 MSG
THOUGHT: Fred and I are reading the newly-released biography of Eugene Peterson, A Burning in My Bones. In it his biographer reveals that amidst all the fanfare and criticism – and there was plenty of both – Eugene never really felt like people understood the bigger picture: “No one notices or remarks on what it is that I have done in the translation – read and listened to the text with my heart, not just with my head – kept the stories in my imagination alive and present all the time.”
It’s so easy in our study of Scripture to slip into reading with our head not our heart; to play mental gymnastics with a text rather than stepping into it fully, activating our imagination, speaking the words out loud, living into them, experiencing them.
For the next week or so I’m writing on Psalm 33, and making Eugene’s translation the jumping off place. There will be much cheering of God, with guitars and piano reinforcing hallelujahs because, after all, right-living people sound best when praising.
SONG: Ever Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDyMJhd4Bo
PRAYER: Your praise will ever be on my lips, God. That’s the way it should be anyway – but I forget. Thank you for the reminder this morning that there is so much to be grateful for, your faithfulness at the top of the list.
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