Entering Psalm 139 again today….
God wants to celebrate us through our identities! He likes to highlight identity, as part of His autobiography! It’s a statement about His story making, art making ability, when we start to wear our true names. It’s less about us than we think, but we get to play ourselves, while wearing Him!
Might as well yield to the Author, editor, and reader of the stories our lives actually are. Makes the pronunciation easier, and clearer. Reading Psalm 139 again today, the real version of the song of ourselves, where David celebrates Himself as a poem of God—wonderfully made. On one hand its a declaration of knowing ourselves, by knowing that we are fully known, even when we don’t know ourselves. On the other, it is a psalm of trust that the one who “digs” into us, knows us even as we sleep, and so is capable of causing us to stand into the contours of our true forever names. Great meditation, and great way to live, implied. It was nice to find out that it is also the favorite song of many rabbis throughout history! It’s basically formatted as an overheard prayer, a private spiritual moment between David and his God. Those are my favorite passages in the book, when we are overhearing other’s personal spiritualities. But this one has something for us all about celebrating the poetry we truly are becoming….from His rather than our perspective! Let God sing the song of yourself!