DIDYMUS DICTA

DAILY MEDITATIONS ON THE PSALMS

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Each morning I spend 30 minutes, more or less, researching and writing on a passage of scripture. This is principally a form of spiritual self-discipline. But comments and questions are welcome.

Friday, June 23, 2006



Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for us the work of our hands —O prosper the work of our hands! (Psalm 90: 14-17)

We read that in creating the universe God would pause occasionally and perceive, "It is good."

God would step back from creating, assess the work, and confirm the outcome.

The psalmist is asking that his work be motivated by God's steadfast love. He is asking to know - and be led - by the example of God's work.

The psalmist is asking - I am asking - for God's help so that our work, our creation, our outcomes might also be good.

May our purpose and God's purpose be as one and our pathways the same.
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Note for future study: God's work in verse 16 is po'al. Our work in verse 17 is ma'aseh. The distinction is not clear to me.

Above is Creation by Kathy Thamann

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