October 27, 2020
Tuesday’s Thoughts on Scripture comes from Psalm 34:8: Taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are they who take refuge in God! (NRSV)
What does it mean to be happy? Without a care in the world? Wonder where we can find a place like that?!?! Satisfied, with all my needs met? Well, that may work, until my stomach starts to growl, which happens fairly regularly. When I think of happy, I think of a feeling. An often fleeting feeling.
But what if we look at the word “happy” from a Hebrew language perspective - blessed. That may give us a totally different take on the feeling happy. As the New English Translation says about blessed: “the word often refers [ ] to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce.” Now that is very different, and really has nothing to do with feeling. It is a deep sense of trust in something (God), no matter how I feel on a particular day or at a particular time.
Trusting deeply in God can also be fleeting, if we rely on our own power or ability to do so. God helps with that. What does life really look like when applying all of our senses to God (taste and see, as our verse suggests)? Hard to know in our humanness. But taking refuge in God - trusting that God is with us no matter what - can be a little easier to imagine, or even do.
May the Holy Spirit help you in these uncertain days to fully and completely take refuge in God. God will not disappoint us. And we are blessed by God.
Blessings. And prayers.
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