O, how great is the Lord, our God. Every day the radiance of God’s face shines
upon us, molding our minds, cleansing our hearts and re-creating us into the
person God designed us to be (See Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling, November 10th
meditation). All praise, all glory and
honor to our God. As Creator and
Redeemer, God is also re-creating all of
creation according to His original design. These concepts may be difficult for
us to grasp, as all around us we see death and corruption, violence and
destruction of earth’s beauty and persons stripped of their dignity by those
who rape the body, kill the innocent already in the womb, and who torture the
mind, and vilify others in a variety of abusive ways.
In today’s responsorial psalm, Psalm 9, David reminds us that our enemies will be “turned
back, overthrown and destroyed.” Over and over again , God has, in the past, “rebuked
the nations and destroyed the wicked; their name (the name of the wicked) …[God]
blotted out forever and ever. The nations (those committed to idolatry—God substitutes--and
those blaspheming God by violence perpetrated in the name of religion) are [will
be] sunk in the pit they have made; in the snare they set, their foot is [will
be] caught” (Psalm 9).
And as we prayed in the response to the psalm, we “will
rejoice” in the our salvation.
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