February
20, 2017 Monday Message:
As
you read through the Psalms, from time to time you’ll encounter the word,
“Selah.” Some people think it means to pause, to think about what you’ve just
read, to meditate upon the previous passage, or it sometimes signals a change in
direction in the text. The truth is that we’ve lost the true ancient meaning of
Selah. No one knows for sure. I might go with, “All of the above!”
In
Psalm 82:2, the psalmist asks God a question: “How long will you defend the
unjust and show partiality to the wicked?” And then the word, “Selah.” Think
about the ridiculousness of what we just read. Does God REALLY favor the
wicked? No, but sometimes it can seem that way to us. We need to pause and
think about what’s actually transpiring.
Then,
in verses 3-4, after the “Selah,” this psalm turns into a prayer: “Defend the
weak and fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the
weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Now
THAT all makes more sense – that’s the same stuff Jesus told us to do! It was a
good prayer 3,000 years ago, it was good when Jesus taught it 2,000 years ago,
and it’s still true today.
I
have never seen so many marches, so many protests as our country has
experienced recently. But much of it still boils down to protecting the
oppressed from the wicked. In some ways, things haven’t changed much in 3,000
years.
Norton
Lawellin
Jesus
in the City Fellowship gathers next Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Akina Church,
3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406, 10:30am. Pastor Michael
Pilla continues our study in 1 Corinthians as we welcome our New Hope guests.
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