To be honest, not everything God does makes me comfortable. Melting people like wax, letting us plunge our feet in the blood of enemies, crushing heads, and the like are not exactly the God I imagine when I think about God. David is probably more comfortable with that imagery because walking in the blood of enemies was a regular occurrence for the warrior-king. I'm just not totally there yet. Maybe I won't ever be totally there. God has ways that are higher than mine, and so I'm okay not being comfortable with every verse. I don't even have to explain it away. I'll just be uncomfortable. But... and here's where the power of the verse comes in, I see tremendous beauty in this psalm.
God's creative energy is clearly at work in this psalm. The lonely are given community, the rain falls to give life to the earth in preparation for God's coming, the poor are provided for by God's creative abundance. God daily bears our burdens and carries them for us even as God shows us mighty strength of protection. And so my response is praise, despite my personal discomfort with the psalm. God is the God who protects the vulnerable and acts to bring people into relationship with others and with the God who created them. Praise be to God!
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