Ordinary Days: Psalm 104

God takes the side of

   the needy! (Psalm 104:31) 

This morning I read Psalm 104. Not my favorite Psalm—too vindictive and vengeful. But, it ends, like most such Psalms, in a good place. Maybe the whole congregation is allowed such prayers because it is a prayer for God to make wrongs right. As the Apostle reminds us “vengeance is God’s business, not ours” (Ro 12:19).

Good Friday and Easter Morning, Ascension and Pentecost does not free us from the hurts and struggles of ordinary life. Glory awaits the “last trumpet sound.” Between now and then the Holy Spirit sustains us while Jesus above roots for us along the way. That’s why the Psalms still work for us. We pray as ones who are in need. Psalms are the prayers of needy people. 

When I came in, Linda reminded me that our dear friend down the street, was in surgery—needy surgery on his back. Something like mine only way more so. So we prayed for our friend, for his surgery: “Please Lord, bring him home well!”