Good morning,
This is the day the Lord has made! Let us praise the Lord together, and rejoice, and be glad in it! We were blessed with a wonderful weekend of fellowship and worship. The women's banquet on Saturday was a blessing. The Lord provided wonderfully and marvelously. The food prepared by chef Joe Walker and his team was excellent, and the message brought by Rev. Jan Devine was inspiring. The Lord blessed us through worship yesterday, Trinity Sunday. We praise the Lord, who is revealed to us as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We worship an immortal, eternal, invisible God, who is the God in three persons, the blessed Trinity.
In Genesis 1, Psalm 8, and the last portion of Matthew 28, we are given a brief glimpse into the person, the nature, the majesty, and the authority of God. Though the world we live in is both complex and complicated, with problems and crises that can be daunting, overwhelming, and often oppressive, we have a God who is more than able to overcome. He is beyond. As Karl Barth said, He is "wholly other". Psalm 8 speaks of God's greatness and man's little-ness. We are reminded that we cannot box God in, with our little minds and thoughts. Praise the Lord for the way He is beyond us, fully transcendent. Yet, He is imminent, God with us through Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, even now. In such a world as the one we live in, we have such a God, in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Psalm 8 also speaks of the beauty and splendor of God, as revealed in nature and the Universe. As Chris Tomlin wrote, God is indescribable; He is an amazing God.
As we look around in the Season of Spring, we see the beauty of the Lord's hand, bursting forth all around us. John Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever".
It was a blessing to have Sunita and Andy with us for the weekend. Praise the Lord for our son-in-law Jeremy, who graduated yesterday from Boston University School of Law. He has accepted a job offer to work for a firm located in downtown Boston, beginning in August.
Psalm 8
A David Psalm
1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name. 2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble. 3-4 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? 5-8 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps. 9 God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.
In His Mercy,
Brown
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