{"id":800,"date":"2011-05-20T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-06-02T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:21:47","slug":"guests-and-hosts-strangers-and-aliens-the-psalms-in-our-worship-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/guests-and-hosts-strangers-and-aliens-the-psalms-in-our-worship-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests and Hosts, Strangers and Aliens: The Psalms in Our Worship 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4460847438_d4c9bf1834_o.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hamilton, PhD - Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Old Testament, ACU Graduate School of Theology\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Hamilton, PhD - Associate Dean, Professor of Old Testament, ACU Graduate School of Theology<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Psalm 39 continues the theme of repentance begun in Psalm 38 by reporting the remorseful sinner&#8217;s internal thoughts: &#8220;I said [to myself], let me keep my ways from sinning by means of my tongue; let me keep my mouth from violence [emending the Hebrew from <em>m-ch-s-m<\/em> to <em>m-ch-m-s<\/em>, a minor change] while the wicked are before me.&#8221;\u00a0 The penitent person seeks to avoid social solidarity with cruel, sadistic, thoughtless people, preferring social alienation to such company.\u00a0 The psalm ends on a closely related theme by asking God to &#8220;Hear my prayer, O Yhwh, listen to my cry.\u00a0 Do not be silent about my tears.\u00a0 For I am an alien with you, a sojourner like my ancestors.&#8221;\u00a0 Why this self-portrayal as an outsider who needs divine hospitality?\u00a0 Why appeal, as the psalmist does, to the age-old convention that those who wander through the land must receive support from those who live there, and most of all from the God who does?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it an odd way to describe the condition that the sinner faces when, cognizant of wrongdoing, he or she seeks a remedy?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that this sense of alienation is precisely what we feel in such a circumstance.\u00a0 Where do we turn?\u00a0 How do we get over the humiliation that we must go through?\u00a0 Here we have a profound insight from the Psalter, according to which the only place to turn is to the God who welcomes aliens, the God who understands.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across a story by Juergen Moltmann in his 2008 autobiography, <em>A Broad Place<\/em> (Fortress Press).\u00a0 There he talks about his experiences as a nineteen- and twenty-year old prisoner of war at the end of World War II, during which he had been drafted into the Wehrmacht while still a teenager.\u00a0 Sometime at the camp, a chaplain came and brought the men Bibles.\u00a0 In the course of reading the Bible he encountered the gospel of Mark and near its end the plaintive cry of Jesus, \u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d\u00a0 Moltmann writes about that discovery, \u201cI felt growing within me the conviction: this is someone who understands you completely; who is with you in your cry to God and has felt the same forsakenness you are living in now.\u00a0 I began to understand the assailed, forsaken Christ because I knew that he understood me\u201d (p. 30).\u00a0 He understood me.<\/p>\n<p>The singer of Psalm 39 also assumes that God understood him or her and was ready to heal.\u00a0 The psalmist assumes that a request for information about the length of his or her life (or as the medieval commentator Rashi thinks, the length of suffering to be endured as punishment) is reasonable and will find an answer.\u00a0 Appealing to the temporary nature of human existence and thus the inappropriateness of prolonged divine discipline (verses 5, 11 &#8212; they form an envelope around the central idea, verses 7-10), the psalm asks for the removal of sin through suffering, seeking to find meaning in the dislocation caused by sin.\u00a0 (The psalm does not assume that all suffering comes as punishment for sin, so we can&#8217;t draw too many conclusions here!)\u00a0 The restoration of health and happiness will allow for a meaningful life before God, not a return to sin, because the psalmist has understood reality better and has become a better person.\u00a0 The hospitable God who receives sinners can count on this psalmist to live the gracious life he or she had earlier forsaken.<\/p>\n<p>There is much else to say about repentance, but it is always useful to remember the nature of the One with whom we repent.\u00a0 The God of Israel is neither a cruel tyrant eager to find fault, nor a cavalier ruler ignoring the behavior of now abandoned subjects.\u00a0 Rather, this is a God who cares deeply about humankind and seeks its betterment.\u00a0 Repentance is part of that process of betterment.\u00a0 Hence this psalm and others like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join me next week at the Sermon Seminar of the Austin Graduate School of Theology<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0 The congenial, thoughtful group there is always worth being with!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 39 continues the theme of repentance begun in Psalm 38 by reporting the remorseful sinner&#8217;s internal thoughts: &#8220;I said [to myself], let me keep my ways from sinning by means of my tongue; let me keep my mouth from violence [emending the Hebrew from m-ch-s-m to m-ch-m-s, a minor change] while the wicked are 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