May 25, 2017: Day 145 – Psalm 145
May 25, 2017So I guess I would focus on vs.8-9 for this psalm. We have heard it before. This is absolutely a psalm of praise and thanksgiving, with no complaining or no request for the enemies to be destroyed and massacred like so many other psalms before it. I like that about this psalm.
Look at vs. 16 and think about the phrase: “You open your hand.” I’ll never forget when I was doing my psychological evaluation in order to become a pastor they had you draw your family. I am not an artist. So I used stick figures and it looked something like this:
I told you I’m not a good artist. But they gave me way more time than I needed, so I added hands to the figures, and on those hands were 5 fingers on each hand attached to the arm. By the time I was finished each figure was decked out with hands that had very visible long fingers. When the psychologist came into the room and saw what I drew I could tell that she was not pleased. When it came time for the evaluation I was told that because I drew “open hands”, that it meant that I had some repressed anger within me. Hmmm, maybe, but probably not because of the “open hands”.
Here in this psalm we find the image of the “open hands” as being a positive one. It was the source of that which satisfied desires of every living thing. I’ll take an open hand any day. But about that repressed anger…
I’ve been having difficulty linking YouTube videos since downloading an update a few weeks ago (repressed anger ….). Anyway, check out “Open Hands” by Laura Story.
https://www.vevo.com/watch/laura-story/open-hands-(lyric-video)/USM2C1606195
Thank you!