The Heart's Cry: Psalm 69

Psalm 69

I will praise the name of God with a song;
    I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
This will please the Lord more than an ox
    or a bull with horns and hoofs.
Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
    you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
For the Lord hears the needy,
    and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

What I find so interesting sometimes is how the people in the Bible are so often breaking the Bibles own rules. I find this so interesting because there are still so many religious leaders, be them clergy or lay, that hold so fast to the rules that they never allow for the leeway of the Holy Spirit to flow. Part of me thinks this is because they just don't believe that God speaks anymore, they seem to think that once the book was bound God was silenced, or at the very least God couldn't come up with anything new but just says the same few verses over and over and over again. I'm sure you've picked it up by this point, but I do not hold to such a concept. What I do hold to is a belief that God is ahead of us, pulling us forward into new understandings, new enlightenments. I believe that God welcomes innovation and creation, after all God is the standard when it comes to creativity.

I also don't hold to the idea that we need to fear any part of science or discovery or new knowledge. Paul claimed that all truth is from God and so we in the church should be championing discovery, because if what we claim is true it should merely enlarge our views of what a great and awesome God we serve. If God is the standard for creativity then every new discovery is merely a discovery of what God has already put in place and we're just figuring it out these thousands of years later, It is not God who is concerned with new things, it is us and we shouldn't put our mortal fears on the one who is immortal.

This Psalm is a call to God in times of persecution but like David sometimes we exaggerate our persecutions, except he does it in songs and we do it in press-releases.

+ Have you ever been scared of what scientists might discover? Why or why not?

+ Can you find rest in the belief that God created it all and therefore God already knows what we may one day discover?