Reliving Old Stories III
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Where are the blessings we keep hearing about?
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
We can summarize the life of the faithful as “blessed.”
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
We can summarize the life of a tree as “growth.”
But the book of Job comes before the Psalms.
“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Psalm: The faithful do not wither.
Job: Everybody withers.
Real life is more than the summary.
Even when it goes smoothly, growth means change, and we don’t like change.
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Things that don’t change … die.
Growth can be interrupted without being destroyed.
“For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
Even starting over is a blessing. Endings don’t have to be permanent.
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning.
