SATURDAY, February 20

Psalm 43. Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.

At the time that the psalmist offers this prayer, he has had more than his fill of human cruelty and crookedness. He is sick of human ways, and longs for a closer walk with God.

We recognize in this psalm a familiar experience. It is that the evil in the world around us somehow makes us feel far from God. Why should our neighbor's ungodliness be a wedge between God and us? This is a mystery, although we realize that our neighbor's sin is not solely his own; we are involved in it too. Just as my sin is yours, and the whole world's, we are all bound together in the sin of the world. The sin that alienates our neighbor from God has the same power to alienate us from God.

Whatever the full explanation, it is out of the depths of the world's sin and separation from God that every soul must cry to him: "Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling." In returning to God, in following his light to his sanctuary, in worshiping him, we find restoration and healing and his "saving health." (1957)

PRAY for the Diocese of Bathurst (New South Wales, Australia)

Ps 30, 32 * 42, 43; Ezekiel 39:21-29; Philippians 4:10-20; John 17:20-26

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