Continually Sustained by God
This Sunday the lectionary has us reflect on Psalm 1. The image that the Psalm gives us is of trees planted by streams of water. A picture that conjures up in our mind a picture of rootedness and refreshment. The psalmist creates an image of the trees living by and being continually sustained from a life giving source. A source that encourages them to sink their roots ever deeper into that which provides nourishment and strength. The connection is made with between trees and those who in the words of the psalmist are “those who do not follow the advice of the wicked”. Those that the psalmist calls the wicked, are not robust and secure like the trees but like chaff lack substance, being dehydrated or devoid of the living water. The “wicked” unlike the well rooted trees are like the chaff and are blown about by the wind.
So, this opening psalm of the psalter uses rich imagery, to put before us a choice. Will we make the choice to live as those who love the way of God and therefore find the depth, refreshment from the true source of life? Or do we choose a life of being blown around in the breeze avoiding the true source of life that provides us with rootedness, security and life? This is a psalm that provides us with the challenge to choose the kind of way we want to live. It is this choice that will determine how we respond to the rest of the psalms that follow.
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