Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9
Journal: What does Psalm 98 teach you about prayer? How does Psalm 98 speak to your heart? How does it speak for your heart? How do we pray this prayer in community? How will we pray it in community today?
Reflection:
Liturgy pulls our prayers out of the tiresome
business of looking after ourselves and into the exhilarating enterprise of
seeing and participating in what God is doing.
We are drawn into a large generosity where everyone is getting and
receiving, offering and praising. We are
drawn to the place where people are being loved and where they love us. We are deepened into the practice of humanity
in covenant with God that goes both beneath and beyond our self-defined
religious desire. We are put beside
people who help us and whom we can help.
Liturgy breaks us out of the isolation of ego and emotion where we are
cut off from the large winds and landscapes of grace. God wants us outside the walls that
quarantine us in our ego-sickness; he pulls us into the great dance of grace in
which we find ourselves moving rhythmically and joyfully with partner after
partner. Selah—indeed! (Answering God by Eugene Peterson)
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the
earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises! Sing praises to the Lord
with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody! With trumpets and the
sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!
Let the sea roar, and all
that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it! Let the rivers clap their
hands; let the hills sing for joy together before the Lord, for he
comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and
the peoples with equity. (Psalm 98:4-9, ESV)
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