Re:Verse passage – Psalm 96 (day three)
“Proclaim good tidings of his salvation from day to day.”
The word salvation often gets associated with escape from damnation. But its meaning is, of course, wider than that. The God who is able to save you from hell is also able to keep you from being swallowed up by the demands of the day. That is surely one kind of salvation. It is in the mundane (in the sense of the daily, necessary, stuff of life) that you live most of your life. And Jesus stood right in the middle of that reality when he taught about worry concerning food, clothing, safety. When Jesus was a helpless baby, he did not die, though shelter was meager, Herod was cruel, and paternity was questioned. Jesus knew God’s salvation on the daily. And he will not keep it from you when weekdays are hard.
Amen, Brother Brian, amen.