{"id":903,"date":"2011-10-25T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/?p=903"},"modified":"2011-10-25T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T01:08:41","slug":"this-too-shall-pass-the-psalms-in-our-worship-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/this-too-shall-pass-the-psalms-in-our-worship-40\/","title":{"rendered":"This, too, shall pass: The Psalms in our Worship 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you read something that you know is true, but it puzzles you anyway.\u00a0 An example comes in Psalm 49, a wisdom reflection that calls itself a <em>mashal<\/em> or proverb.\u00a0 Notice the line in verse 16 (Hebrew 17): &#8220;Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich, when glory\/splendor grows in his house.&#8221;\u00a0 Why would anyone be afraid of such a thing?\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to understand the poem&#8217;s final observation that wealth is no substitute for understanding or wisdom.\u00a0 But still, why be afraid?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the text&#8217;s anxiety reflects a specific historical setting, for in a precapitalist society, growing affluence in a given family often came through illicit means (political corruption, for example).\u00a0 And the new economic differentiation could mean that the local village&#8217;s carefully balanced social relationships unraveled.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe something deeper is at stake as well.\u00a0 There is something to fear in the acquisition of wealth.\u00a0 Most wealthy believers &#8212; those who are thoughtful and self-reflective anyway &#8212; I know will tell you that they had to work hard to keep their own friends, to pass on sane values to their children, and to make sure that they weren&#8217;t being used by overly deferential people or that they used others who respected their wealth too much.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a problem.\u00a0 Maybe fear is sometimes appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>What replaces fear in the world of this text is neither envy nor revolution but a new orientation to life: a new confidence in God&#8217;s ability to rescue us from the power of death, in whatever form it takes.\u00a0 One of the ways God does that is by allowing to see through the structures and pretensions of the world in which wealth, status, and power take precedence over virtue.\u00a0 Knowing that God works in such a way offers the psalmist a door to another way of life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a door worth entering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you read something that you know is true, but it puzzles you anyway.\u00a0 An example comes in Psalm 49, a wisdom reflection that calls itself a mashal or proverb.\u00a0 Notice the line in verse 16 (Hebrew 17): &#8220;Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich, when glory\/splendor grows in his house.&#8221;\u00a0 Why would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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