In our Call to Worship on Sunday we read: “you give them drink from your river of delights” (Ps. 36:8b). The root of the word translated to “delights” is “eden” – and so we are reminded of the river of life in the delightful garden of Eden.
I’ve recently returned from the appropriately named Eden Municipality (the Otter Trail ends in Natures Valley, Eden Municipality). All along the Otter Trail numerous fresh streams delighted us. We filled our water bottles at little cascades, quenching our thirst. We swam in the deep pools, cooling our tired legs. The streams refreshed us.
That’s how the singer of Psalm 36 experienced God in Worship. She’d emerge refreshed, filled with delight. It wasn’t that she lived in “Paradise”. Her song opens with a lament about those who dream up evil on their beds and whose words are venomously deceitful. But, in Worship, she was immersed in God’s steadfast love (:5) and reminded that she lived under the shadow of God’s wings; secure in God’s love.
May our weekly worship and our daily prayers lead us to the river of delights, quenching our thirsty souls and filling us to the brim with steadfast love to share with everyone we meet.
God Bless,
Sean