Wow, I totally forgot about reading my psalm for yesterday. It didn't even register until just now, which is about 8:30 pm on my clock. It's a good thing that my salvation doesn't depend on my reading a psalm everyday.
"Your hands have made and fashioned me..."
Who is God but what God has done for me and all of creation? On a very basic level, you can know nothing of who God is apart from what God does. I've said to confirmation students in the past, "the 'how' of creation is nowhere near as important as the 'who' of creation." I say this to get students to think past the minutiae of details concerning creation and to rather focus on the fact that, however it happens, God is source of all our life here on earth. But having a single God who the creator of all things brings about tough questions for us to ponder. Namely that God created a world with pain and suffering.
"My eyes fail with watching for your promise; I ask, 'When will you comfort me?'"
This is a question that many if not all end up asking at some point in their lives. I don't know the answer to it. I can only take stabs at trying to explain some of it, yet whatever explanation I come up with will fail at some point. I can only trust the promise that the one who gives life is also the one who loves and forgives life, even in its messiness.
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