The Heart's Cry: Psalm 33

Psalm 33

Sing to him a new song

I don't know if you realize this, but in order to sing a new song you must find or write a new song. In order to sing a new song you must not sing the old song. In order to sing a new song you must be open to what God is telling you to sing. In order to sing a new song you cannot hold the old songs with hands that are too tightly gripping them. In order to sing a new song you must open your mouth and sing it with pride.

"God is not afraid of new things." Pope Benedict

A little over a year ago we found ourselves in Philadelphia about a week before the Pope was coming to the US to visit. Because of that upcoming visit there was already souvenirs available at some of the shops around Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and Ben Franklin's home. While browsing for something to take and remember the trip I came across a coffee cup that was adorned with the above quote, and that quote sums up in 7 words what I have come to believe over the past 15 years or so. You see about 15 years ago I began to pivot on some of my long held beliefs due to my reading of the gospels, Jesus was speaking to me and I was [finally] choosing to listen.

You see, those Red Letters are still speaking to us 2000 years after they were spoken, to our current day and age and to the ages yet to come, it's just that we too often fail to listen to them. Worse still, we think that they have told us everything they ever will. We decided years or decades or lifetimes ago that the Bible had spoken all that it could ever speak to us and our job was to make sure that our children and grandchildren and great great great great great grandchildren believed the same way we believed about anything and everything.

But the thing is, I don't want Henry to believe everything I believe, I want him to believe everything God wants him to believe. That's what we should hope for our future generations because some of the things my ancestors believed were not very Godly and perhaps there are things I believe that are not very Godly. I do believe that God is ahead of us, pulling us into a new and better future, and that will be true for the next generation and the next and the next.

+ Do you believe in the same things that your parents and grandparents believed in?

+ How do you see God pulling us into a new and better future?