Re: Verse reading–Psalm 95 (day three) “Today, if only you would hear his voice…” Jesus took this Psalm seriously. He did not hurry about in his life because he along with the Psalmist knew something about this world. He knew, in the words of late Dallas Willard, that “the universe was a perfectly safe place for us to be.” Whether a little girl lay dying, or he himself suffered hunger in a trackless wilderness, or temple guards travelled to arrest him by night, Jesus found himself and others at home in God’s good universe. Even adverse circumstances took place within a world that God made and that God commands. Jesus’s ancestors in the desert did not take this reality seriously. Our Lord shows us how it looks for a human being to live a life that confidently remembers today the Creator’s voice of authority over every created thing.
