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    Tuesday, July 1, 2025

    Psalm 124: 1-6

    1If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—let Israel now say—

    2if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when our enemies attacked us,

    3then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

    4then the flood would have swept us away; the torrent would have gone over us;

    5then over us would have gone the raging waters.

    6Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

     

    Help me, O Lord, for I am small in a world which is large.

    Help me to perceive and to remember how, in my smallness, I cried out to you through the years again and again, overwhelmed by events beyond my control. Every time you responded. I should be pitiful in your eyes because every time, once saved and safe, I gloried in the victory as if it were my own strength which had prevailed. I forgot the saving work of your hands and began yet again to depend upon my own thoughts, skills, and desires, as if they could pull me to safety.

    This, I suppose, is the human condition. At least it seems so to me.  I look around faithfully each day in a feeble effort to comprehend what is happening among my brothers and sisters, in the homes of my neighbors, in the societies of the earth, and all I see is a raging flood sweeping away whole nations. The fruit of human pride and arrogance.

    Then, overwhelmed and fearful, I bow before you yet again, pleading for your gift of peace.

    We forget. We are small, tiny as mites of dust swirling in an endless creation. What are we that You should care so?

    Now when I am old and broken, weak and helpless, I can look back at the whole fabric of life and see it was never me, but always You.

    You created all the wholeness and goodness I experienced in life. When I shouted defiance, You spoke faithfulness. When I demanded my own dreams, it was You who answered. Then, when I found myself yet again broken and trembling, helpless in the hands of history, You came and comforted me.

    I know not how many moments I have left, Lord, but this is my prayer today: Let me use every one of them remembering Your goodness and praising Your name!

     

    Hymn of the day: On Eagle’s Wings. Online at Rossford UMC - Media.

     

     

    Rev. Lawrence Keeler