How long, you simple ones, will you love inanity, how long will you turn away at my reproof? Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will acquaint you with my words.
Wisdom makes a plea to us. We have the option to listen or to proceed in inanity.
God says: You know that you will suffer when you persist in living in a way that is damaging you and yet this way is comfortable to you. You know that there is wisdom in learning more about your true self so that you might find a way to me and yet you resist gaining in self-knowledge. You know that you do not rightly love inanity and yet you cling to it. Turn your ears and your heart toward Wisdom, for she has much to teach you.
God’s Wisdom waits for us, calls to us, prepares to receive us. Let us turn to God with our regrets. Let us ask God to heal our love of inanity. And let us prepare to receive the benefits of leaving behind our inanity.
Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Why do we seek wisdom? Is it so that we might better control ourselves and others in order to number our days? Is it so that we might keep ourselves safe from all disaster and above all turmoil? Do we seek wisdom in order to better rely on ourselves and less on God?
God says: There really is nothing to fear. When life is going well for you and you want it to go on forever it is I who endow you with gifts. When crises loom and your life feels over-long, I buoy you up and lift you above the fray. I do not leave you to survive on your own although I know that this is how you feel. Trust in me. Believe in me. Live in me. I want to be with you always. And I want to share with you the eternal wisdom of my heart.
We want to be self-controlling and self-fulfilling. We believe that we carry the weight of the world. We spend our years searching for panacea and surety. Yet God alone saves. God alone is enough.
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This week we spent time with the opening chapters of Deuteronomy reflecting on what it means to be in relationship with God. This may have generated questions that still linger. Do we need scientific evidence in order to believe that God is with us and that God exists? Do we keep the new word that God loves and protects us to ourselves or do we teach this story to our children and to our children’s children? What does God’s guidance look like? How are we to respond to God’s assistance? Do we owe something in return for God’s protection and mercy? Do we deserve the unmerited successeswe are given at no cost?
Psalm 91, a hymn of thanksgiving and remembrance, describes the meaning of God’s presence. Psalm 91, an anthem of hope and petition, expresses our basic human want to be protected from evil. Psalm 91, a song of call and response, is an intimate conversation with God.
You need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see.Looking at the negatives in life it appears that the wicked always win; remembering the many small times when we somehow did not fall into the path of the wicked, we give thanks for God’s enduring wisdom.
You have the Lord for your refuge; you have made the Most High your stronghold. Knowing that God chooses to love us no matter our faith, no matter our hope, no matter our love, we give thanks for God’s enduring persistence.
No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your tent.Choosing to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, God among us, we give thanks for God’s enduring power
For God commands the angels to guard you in all his ways. Giving ourselves over to the Spirit who abides within each of us, we give thanks for God’s enduring love.
With their hands they shall support you; lest you strike your foot upon a stone.Accepting the guidance and protection freely given to us, we give thanks for God’s enduring presence.
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We consider the gifts of humility and satisfaction that God grants Job – and us – for offering the Lord a life of fidelity, honesty and humility. And we are grateful. Today we celebrate the wisdom and hope this story engenders. We acknowledge the choice that God puts before us . . . the choice to live doubtfully or hopefully, dishonestly or faithfully, deceitfully or lovingly. And we affirm the choice we take to live in God’s wisdom as best we are able.
My Choice
Like a leaf windmilling in the
Quick current of life,
I tumble, waiting for the words,
All is well.
Like a flake of hoarfrost clinging to thin glass,
I lean on the hope of my choice that
God alone is enough.
I am a thought of God
sent into the wind,
Pinned to this fragile life I am gifted by
One so great.
I extend myself beyond my own imagining.
I give myself over to the only choice before me.
I bend all into the Spirit of the Lord, to rest in God’s healing wisdom.
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