Positioned gracefully across the Book of Psalms is a string of seventy-one pearls, lovely beads of wisdom followed by the admonition SELAH which means, “Pause, think on these things, meditate.”
Psalm 3:8 “From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people. Selah.”
Meditation:
Deliverance. Blessing. It’s all from you, Father God,
and yet . . . .
too many of your people don’t acknowledge your blessings.
We whine and tell you how to do your job.
Why is it so hard for us to honor you, God?
Apples must have fallen on Adam’s and Eve’s heads because,
ever since the Garden of Eden episode,
we humans have been confused, really out-to-lunch.
Like the serpent, we want control.
We want to determine the rules of engagement,
decide who gets blessed and who gets cursed
and what those blessings and cursings will be.
Yet, you know our frame. You remember that we are dust
and, mercifully, refrain from blowing us off the face of the earth.
Instead, you extend a simple invitation,
so simple that any dust bunny
should be able to understand . . .
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
SELAH
Look up: Deuteronomy 30:19; Psalm 103:14
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