The Word of Praise
This Sunday’s Psalm 148 begin and ends with a great Alleluia! This single word carries a great power. In this word all of creation, all the cosmos and earth and everything within it are brought together in that powerful single word of praise, Alleluia!
Alleluia may sound strange, from another time but its meaning is timeless. It’s a word that emerges from the greatest of all stores - that of a creating, loving, forgiving and saving God. Alleluia comes to us through centuries of tradition giving it a depth of meaning and power.
Even so it is not the word itself that is important the exuberance of our heartfelt joy in our joining together with all of creation in expressing our praise of our forever creating and loving God. Language may change over time but in that word of praise we can express all of humanity’s praises and add ours to them.
Just imagine what the world would be like if humanity was fully engaged with God in creating, not destroying. Just imagine if the theme of this psalm was how we lived, living in a continuous cycle of creativity, love and praise. Just imagine how our lives would look with the Spirit of Alleluia unleashed within us.
Many thanks to Brenda for preaching this morning, Neil St for taking the Holy Eucharist Tuesday evening, and also Glennys for taking the Wednesday morning Holy Eucharist while I was at Clergy Conference.
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