9.6.23 - Psalm 108:3-4, 12-13
How do you experience mercy from someone else? What goes into your decisions to withold or offer mercy to someone else?
I want to give thanks to you among the people, O LORD. I want to make music to praise you among the nations because your mercy is higher than the heavens. Your truth reaches the skies. Give us help against the enemy because human assistance is worthless. With God we will display great strength. He will trample our enemies.
What if, in this Psalm, the power and strength of the Creator is exactly the traits David references: mercy and truth?
I know that a strength composed of mercy and truth sounds like a very effective tool when it comes to battling authorities, attitudes, and those intangible enemies.
We know some power in our country was, and sometimes is, very much taken by force. And in a Goliath-way, I don't think going toe-to-toe is the winning answer. I think even more often, power is also accumulated through misinformation, news fatigue, etc.
So what better way to combat our particular brand of looming existential crisis but with enough mercy for folks to stumble their way back to truth, and enough truth to keep us firmly planted in the powerful mercy of the Creator?
What's the message of mercy you need to hear today? What about those around you?
--Katelin Champion