For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil will not sojourn with you. The boastful will not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful. (Psalm 5: 4-6)
God is our ground of being. God is that which is fundamentally real. God is absent to those who misrepresent reality, especially for their own benefit.
The psalmist characterizes his enemies as those who seek to flatter him and mislead him. Enemies are those who seek to destroy rather than create. Evil, in Hebrew ra', is the result of breaking into pieces that which is meant to be whole.
God is a refuge of truth, of creation, and of reconciliation for the broken. Division and destruction are the enemies of the real. Illusion is a powerful enemy, but the foundation of reality does not change.
God is our ground of being. God is that which is fundamentally real. God is absent to those who misrepresent reality, especially for their own benefit.
The psalmist characterizes his enemies as those who seek to flatter him and mislead him. Enemies are those who seek to destroy rather than create. Evil, in Hebrew ra', is the result of breaking into pieces that which is meant to be whole.
God is a refuge of truth, of creation, and of reconciliation for the broken. Division and destruction are the enemies of the real. Illusion is a powerful enemy, but the foundation of reality does not change.
posted by Didymus | 5:55 AM
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