Psalm Meditation 781
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
June 7, 2015

Psalm 117
1 Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
(NRSV)

When something happens on a regular basis we tend to block it out and take it for granted. We have a mantle clock that chimes every fifteen minutes and I have become so used to the chime that it does not register in my consciousness even when I am sitting in the same room as the clock. Guests in our house have been unable to sleep without disabling the clock for the night.

The love of God can be experienced the same way. We get so used to feeling God’s love for us that we forget how much God loves us. We get the sense that we have been abandoned by everyone and everything because the love that surrounds us fails to register. It takes an effort for our senses and hearts to register what already surrounds us on a regular basis.

Just as not everyone has a noisy clock, not everyone has experienced the love of God. It is not that they have gotten used to it, they have no awareness of it. Here is where the psalmist’s call impacts us. We who have experienced the love of God are invited to tell people about it in such a way that they know it is available to them in the same way it is to us. The steadfast love of God is for all people at all times.

June 1, 2015
LCM