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One of the reasons I love the Psalms is that I am usually able to relate to some emotion expressed in these prayers/lyrics. Someone else has been in a tough position--and their difficulties resolve by trusting in God. Or, someone has remembered what God has done and they rejoice. The Psalms greatly help connect me to the steadfast love of God, bring me into his presence and help change my attitude.

As bible students, we are aware that there is more going on in the Psalms than just something to make us feel better. I find John Woodhouses' article "Reading the Psalms as Christian Scripture" helpful, encouraging me to think more deeply about these prayers and lyrics. Woodhouse proposes four related levels of meaning or lenses through which we may look in reading the Psalms:

Through the lens of our experience --recognizing words that directly express our own experience of difficulties in life and our faith in God. But we will often notice that there are at least parts of a psalm that we cannot directly make our own. They do not really ‘fit’ us.

Through the lens of history : “Often this will mean understanding a Psalm as David’s words or words about David, or words related in some way to David’s Kingdom. But we will notice again that there are ways in which the psalm does not really ‘fit’ even David. He never ruled the world.

Through the lens of Jesus : “As we listen to the psalm we may consider how the psalm ‘fits’ Jesus. How does the psalm illuminate the news that ‘Jesus is the Christ’? In what ways does Jesus fulfill the psalm? In what ways does this fulfillment surpass the David we hear in the Psalms?

Through the lens of being united with Christ : “I consider the wonder that I belong to the Christ. By faith I am united to him. This will mean that I identify, not first of all with the ‘I’ of the Psalms, but the people who benefit from the deliverance of the Christ. I am among those who are blessed because they take refuge in him. 

Bob is a older gentleman with a limp. He's been driving with TT for seven years. He was very thorough in his pre-trip training with me: check the fluids, the clips, the lift, etc. We pulled away in his Ford Diesel mini-bus at 7:30 enroute to our first destination.

I wouldn't have necessarily signed up for this job, except I have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay, and, frankly, apparently no other productive connections in Minneapolis to hook me up with work. I applied for the job initially because my neighbor Tom also did, and I was desperate. To make matters worse, I got the job and he didn't. Though perhaps I understand why: starting as a new driver as a senior citizen as he is might be tough, the work will require stamina and endurance.

The job requires 5 days of riding along with an experienced driver and 4 Saturdays of classroom training before becoming a fully certified driver. Day one was with Tom or "New York" as they call him. He's from Queens and has the accent to prove it. He was actually quite entertaining to ride along with and our route, fortunately, had a couple of opportunities for using the facilities of various Super Americas.

A memorable moment with Tom was our encounter with an amputee at the VA hospital. I went in to the entryway to pick up the man as Tom waited with the vehicle. When we came out, Tom asked the man if he was going to the destination listed on the manifest. "No, I'm going to the Fair Grounds, I called and made the change on Monday" the man replied. The client became irate as he noted the company's mistake. A call to the dispatcher by us, a call by cellphone to the company by the livid client and a quick trip to the bathroom by moi later, and I was in the driver seat watching Tom patiently tell the man he'd have to wait for the company to send a bus in 15 minutes.

A few more F bombs by the vet and we shut the door. With the dispatchers blessings and Tom's direction, I pulled away from the curb, leaving the gentleman screaming at us for not taking him with us. He flung his half-filled bottle of Dr. Pepper at the bus as I pull away.

There was a gentleman already on the bus who watched all of this. I believe he was mostly deaf. He felt bad and apologized if the commotion was because of him.

Lesson: Mistakes happen, and sometimes I'll have to be the powerless middleman who has to put up with it.

Back to Bob. By lunch time, he had explained quite a few things to me and I had mentioned that I had worked at a church. He told me that he used to work sales and, knowing that I was a man of faith, said "I was led to this job." From the middle of the classifieds which were full of jobs he had no skill in, this one stuck out as one he could do. It has turned out to be a rewarding job for him.

I shared that I thought it was an honor to drive these folks around. He agreed. He mentioned he'd read the Bible three times through during the breaks of this job. I mentioned that we reflect God's heart for the weak and oppressed when we, too, care for these people.

I also read a chapter of Jim Palmer's Divine Nobodies today. It really only confirmed that working at a common labor job is a very Jesus-like thing to do.
Barton has helpfully described stages the people of God went through as God moved them out of Egypt toward the promised land. "From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. " - Exodus 17:1.
Moses, of course, had already had a wilderness experience of his own for 40 years. IT was a time of preparation for his own soul. His calling to lead others our of Egypt was not a creation of his own, but a genuine calling from God--one he took reluctantly.
Barton outlines 7 different stages that Israel went through, stages that represent what each of goes through as we press on in our spiritual maturity.
Preawareness . This is God's people in Egypt. This is also the place of the non-Christian. Things are fine. "This is the way everyone lives." People in this stage might have a vague sense that there is something more, but generally speaking everyone copes and maintains in this stage. They are also abdicating responsibility for dealing with life issues.
Awareness . In this stage, people are experiencing pain. Things are bad. This is Israel under the new kings of Egypt who oppressed them. We realize we are not completely free. We are open to moving in a new direction. It requires courage to name reality and keep facing into it. There is a clear call to take responsibility. "Denial is a lot less painful than awareness, but if we remain in denial, we are left stuck in our bondage. We all need others to help us see what is real in our current situation, but we also need 'someone to assure us that there is another way and that it is possible for us to move in that direction--as risky as it might seem.'
Turning Point. (Ex. 6:9) God has to bring both His people and Pharoah to the point of exodus. This is a dreaming phase. Israel dreamed of freedom on the other side of the pain they were facing. This is also a chaotic point, because the situation has to deteriorate to a point where they are willing to do something about the situation. The turning point for Israel is through the signs and wonders of the plagues that eventually forced Pharoah to listen (It was getting worse and worse for him). For us, it is a place where we are not living by 'ought' or 'should' but getting a glimpse of a truer self, called by God.
The Roundabout Way (Ex. 13:17-18) God doesn't take His people straight to the Promised Land. They are not ready to take on this bigger challenge. They are not ready for war yet. God has another agenda for His people as they wander the wilderness. [my parenthesis, it was their lack of faith that kept them here...] Positively speaking, Barton notes that God is present with the people throughout the wilderness. He is not in a hurry to get us to the Promised Land. We need to learn to trust Him (Manna in the desert, knowing and remembering his promises)
Times of Testing (Ex. 14:4). Usually an unexpected obstacle. For Israel it was the Red Sea. God creates situations that will show His glory. The journey is harder than we expected. We want to go back. Moses and the people were in a tough spot.
Learning to Keep Still (Ex. 14:13-14). Moses has learned to be calm. He assures the people that they need only be still and watch how the Lord will fight for them. The people are afraid, they want to run. Will they trust their leader? God parts the Red Sea.
Training in Waiting (Ex. 4:19) We train to 'wait on God' by recognizing we are in 'liminal space,' Latin for 'threshhold'. Richard Rohr describes it as "a unique spiritual position where human beings hate to be but where the biblical God is always leading them. It is when you have left the tried and true but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. It is when you are finally out of the way. it is when you are between your old comfort zone and any possible new answer. If you're not trained in how to hold anxiety and wait, you will run... anything to flee this terrible cloud of unknowing." Have we learned how to wait on God instead of running away or giving in to panic or deceiving ourselves into thinking things are better than they are?
From Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership , Ruth Haley Barton.
"A Psalm that we cannot utter as a prayer, that makes us falter and horrifies us, is a hint to us that here Someone else is praying, not we; that the One who is here protesting his innocence, who is invoking God’s judgment, who has come to such infinite depths of suffering is none other than Jesus Christ himself.”
“Jesus Christ prays through the Psalter in his congregation.”


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