During our General/Jurisdictional Conference Delegation meeting this week, the devotional was on Psalm 33, which talks about God watching over us. Christine Dodson (head of our delegation) chose to read the passage from the Message translation. Where the NRSV uses phrases like “people” and “humankind,” this particular Psalm in the Message uses the phrase “earth-dwellers,” and Bishop Ward picked up on it. She said that particular phrase reminds her about the difference between us and God, that us “earth-dwellers” aren’t always so good, and certainly not always so good to one another.
But the Psalm goes on to say that “God’s eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love.” We might be dwellers of this Earth for a time, but may our hearts dwell on the things of God, so that his eye may be upon us.
