Satisfaction - 27 March 2009 |
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Psalm 63:5-7
My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
As our mouths are satisfied with food, so our souls are satisfied with God himself.
And by ’soul’, understand not the ‘disembodied self’, but the (very much embodied) whole being.
The vision of God’s glorious and committed love provides the thirsting psalmist with life-sustaining satisfaction. Again, it is not some disembodied spiritual part of the psalmist that is being fed but his whole animated being – the self-aware nepes, which includes mind and body together. (Gerald H. Wilson, Psalms vol. 1, NIVAC, p. 891)
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Bible, Meditations for the Lord's Supper, Minister's Blog