Sunday Psalms;

I cried out to the LORD when I was in trouble (and he answered me):

"LORD, deliver me from lying lips and a dishonest tongue!"

Psalms 120:1-2 CEB

I'm not sure whether the psalmist is writing about someone else who is lying and dishonest and he wants delivery from, or himself.

Imagine being self aware enough to name my own struggles and ask God to deliver me from myself!

Imagine being honest enough to want to change.

I usually believe that my problems are all located outside of me, if I need delivering it's from some circumstances, but to ask God to deliver me from my own ability to self deceive? 

To ask God to deliver me from my tendency to shape things in ways that favour me, that make me look better even at the cost of someone else?

Jesus was crucified on the lies and dishonesty of people, he did cry out, and in the end was delivered.

Maybe today it is the actions of others that you too need delivery from too, & in this psalm  perhaps you hear a kindred spirit.

As we seek to live in the light of ressurection, of the dawn that has come after the darkness of the crucifixion, as the upsidedown kingdom has been launched, what does this psalm invite us into, what does it encourage us to leave behind, what new way of being in the world are we being invited into...

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