31 December 2009
Psalm 46, 48; 1 Kings 3:5-14; James 4:13-17;5:7-11; John 5:1-15
Solomon proved that he already had a gift of wisdom by his prayer. He knew the Lord had been with David and he knew enough to know what made a good king. He began so well. Solomon knew that if he was to be a good king he would need wisdom to discern how to rule. God was pleased and promised him all that he could desire or dream of having and in fact we know that Solomon indeed possessed all these things and great, supernatural wisdom. The promise even included lengthened life but that part of the promise was contingent on walking in the ways of the Lord, and here Solomon did not keep his end of the bargain.
The Sabbath police get their man. Jesus does an incredible work of healing a man who had been an invalid for 38 years and their concern is that the man is now carrying a mat. He was doing so in obedience to Jesus’ command and Jesus had to know the Sabbath restriction. He could simply have told him to get up and walk but included the command that became the focus of attention, proving their priorities were out of order. This man is very different from the man born blind in John 9. This one seems to be interested in assigning blame, chasing back to the Jews to let them know that Jesus was the one who was responsible for his Sabbath breaking.
It isn’t wrong to make plans for tomorrow but we need to be humble about them and hold them lightly. Are we able to take things as they come or are our plans more important? Jesus always seems to have been gentle with people who interrupt Him. When they come seeking healing or when they follow Him when He was seeking solitude He never blew them up or blew them off. He acted as though people were more important than plans. The patience and endurance of which James speaks are born out of the reliance on God he encourages regarding long-range planning. A farmer has to do some long-term planning in order to have a crop, James doesn’t tell him not to plant a crop, but to be patient as it grows by the Lord’s will and provision of all that is necessary for it to grow. Imagine how James would speak to our society today that barely has the patience to microwave popcorn.
We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
As your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
30 December 2009
Psalm 20, 21; 1 Kings 17:17-24; 3 John 1-15; John 4:46-54
God had already done a great miracle for this widow and yet now her son lay dead and she questioned both Elijah and his God. She initially told him she was baking one last cake and then she and her son would eat it and wait for death by starvation to come. She had no hope when she met Elijah and now she had put her faith in God, had seen His remarkable provision of oil and flour and God and the prophet had let her down in her son’s death. What she had once prepared for she now sought to understand in light of God and her faith. She had faith, she had given Elijah all she had left and the Lord had provided continually for them ever since, but now things no longer made sense to her. Elijah’s prayer was answered and her faith was strengthened. I believe that this too is coming like a little child and faith seeking understanding.
The man at Capernaum believed Jesus, took Him at His word and acted in faith. Jesus tells him that he won’t believe unless he gets a sign and the man hears the challenge and responds. He acts on Jesus’ promise, not waiting for the sign but hearing the word and walking in faith. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Cost of Discipleship that only he who is obedient believes and only he who believes is obedient. We can talk about faith all we want but until we are willing to take the step of faith in accordance with our beliefs we cannot lay claim to having faith at all. It can only be properly called faith if we act on it.
John speaks of “walking in the truth” as the measure of his joy. To know the truth and teach the truth is one thing, but walking in the truth is the measure of faith. What a delight it must have been for John that those whom he had taught were walking in that truth. Walking in the truth means taking risks and trusting God. Walking in the truth is standing at the Red Sea waiting for God to act, it is Gideon trusting God as he entered battle with a force that was a joke numerically, it is Jesus going to the cross believing in the resurrection from the dead and it is choosing to witness to one who was born of a virgin and resurrected from the dead to life everlasting by being willing to be fools for Christ.
Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.
Psalm 20, 21; 1 Kings 17:17-24; 3 John 1-15; John 4:46-54
God had already done a great miracle for this widow and yet now her son lay dead and she questioned both Elijah and his God. She initially told him she was baking one last cake and then she and her son would eat it and wait for death by starvation to come. She had no hope when she met Elijah and now she had put her faith in God, had seen His remarkable provision of oil and flour and God and the prophet had let her down in her son’s death. What she had once prepared for she now sought to understand in light of God and her faith. She had faith, she had given Elijah all she had left and the Lord had provided continually for them ever since, but now things no longer made sense to her. Elijah’s prayer was answered and her faith was strengthened. I believe that this too is coming like a little child and faith seeking understanding.
The man at Capernaum believed Jesus, took Him at His word and acted in faith. Jesus tells him that he won’t believe unless he gets a sign and the man hears the challenge and responds. He acts on Jesus’ promise, not waiting for the sign but hearing the word and walking in faith. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Cost of Discipleship that only he who is obedient believes and only he who believes is obedient. We can talk about faith all we want but until we are willing to take the step of faith in accordance with our beliefs we cannot lay claim to having faith at all. It can only be properly called faith if we act on it.
John speaks of “walking in the truth” as the measure of his joy. To know the truth and teach the truth is one thing, but walking in the truth is the measure of faith. What a delight it must have been for John that those whom he had taught were walking in that truth. Walking in the truth means taking risks and trusting God. Walking in the truth is standing at the Red Sea waiting for God to act, it is Gideon trusting God as he entered battle with a force that was a joke numerically, it is Jesus going to the cross believing in the resurrection from the dead and it is choosing to witness to one who was born of a virgin and resurrected from the dead to life everlasting by being willing to be fools for Christ.
Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.
29 December 2009
Psalm 2, 26; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14
The comfort of the Lord to His people through the prophet is beautiful. The promise is that they will return to the land and that once they are there they will experience the blessedness of the Lord. I can only imagine what it would be like to be in exile from my homeland and know that it had been utterly demolished and devastated, reduced to rubble and ruin. How much worse when your homeland is truly the city of God, the one you have confessed as creator of heaven and earth, who lives and who loves you and the city He had chosen, where His Name was great, where His glory dwelt? What a wonderful promise to hear that He has not forgotten you or His city! The promises here are extraordinary and in Jesus we see that all nations have been blessed from this nation.
What does it mean to come like a little child? I believe it means that we are able to simply believe. We can find many objections to faith and belief and yet I find that the more I come with simple faith the more understanding I receive. St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury in the late 11th century, had a motto, “faith seeking understanding.” That motto, in my opinion, captures this statement of Jesus’. We come with a love of God and an implicit trust of God in search of deeper knowledge of Him. The Israelites who heard Isaiah’s prophecy had a choice to make, believe it or ignore it, but believing it with their whole being would enable men like Nehemiah and Ezra to undertake things like the rebuilding of the city in the faith that God would enable the impossible to be done. The same goes for the apostles, including Paul, who undertook the Great Commission to take the world for Jesus and William Carey, known as the Father of Modern Missions, whose motto was “Attempt great things for God, expect great things for God.” Do we trust Him enough to believe Him for all things, including the fulfillment of His promises?
Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.
For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
Psalm 2, 26; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14
The comfort of the Lord to His people through the prophet is beautiful. The promise is that they will return to the land and that once they are there they will experience the blessedness of the Lord. I can only imagine what it would be like to be in exile from my homeland and know that it had been utterly demolished and devastated, reduced to rubble and ruin. How much worse when your homeland is truly the city of God, the one you have confessed as creator of heaven and earth, who lives and who loves you and the city He had chosen, where His Name was great, where His glory dwelt? What a wonderful promise to hear that He has not forgotten you or His city! The promises here are extraordinary and in Jesus we see that all nations have been blessed from this nation.
What does it mean to come like a little child? I believe it means that we are able to simply believe. We can find many objections to faith and belief and yet I find that the more I come with simple faith the more understanding I receive. St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury in the late 11th century, had a motto, “faith seeking understanding.” That motto, in my opinion, captures this statement of Jesus’. We come with a love of God and an implicit trust of God in search of deeper knowledge of Him. The Israelites who heard Isaiah’s prophecy had a choice to make, believe it or ignore it, but believing it with their whole being would enable men like Nehemiah and Ezra to undertake things like the rebuilding of the city in the faith that God would enable the impossible to be done. The same goes for the apostles, including Paul, who undertook the Great Commission to take the world for Jesus and William Carey, known as the Father of Modern Missions, whose motto was “Attempt great things for God, expect great things for God.” Do we trust Him enough to believe Him for all things, including the fulfillment of His promises?
Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Prove me, O LORD, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.
For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
28 December 2009
Psalm 97, 98; Proverbs 8:22-30; John 13:20-35
This passage from Proverbs is about wisdom, which some have equated with Jesus. We must be careful, however, in that analogy. The first verse speaks of having been created and Jesus is not created but, rather, begotten. There is a difference and we need to preserve that difference. The “fight” at Nicea and Constantinople when the creed we know as the Nicene from the Eucharistic liturgy was over this very issue and Athanasius, in the creed that bears his name, sought to make this distinction plain. The words, of one being with the Father, mean of the same essence, as opposed to the image of God. What they tell us is that whatever God “is”, Jesus “is” in contradistinction to us. We are created of other created stuff, not of the same essence as God. We have, however, been given His Spirit to dwell in this flesh as a foretaste of what will be when we have new, imperishable bodies.
When Judas goes to betray Jesus we are never told what was in Judas’ mind, but Jesus knew. We know what the disciples thought Jesus meant when He told Judas to quickly do what he had to do, but what did Judas think Jesus meant? The wisdom we just read about in Proverbs was part of Jesus’ makeup and He knew all things, had seen this moment from the beginning of time and yet here it is in real time and how would it go from here? Jesus is certain about what is next and tells the disciples exactly what will come and how they are to live after his death. There are many ways one can tell disciples. I can identify in my own life how I sometimes emulate those who have taught me and influenced my life and I can see it in others. Jesus says that His disciples will prove to be His own to the extent they love one another. The unspoken part of that is that they love one another because He loved them, a reality that John picks up in his 1st epistle in chapter 4, a fuller exposition of John 3.16.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of melody!
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!
Psalm 97, 98; Proverbs 8:22-30; John 13:20-35
This passage from Proverbs is about wisdom, which some have equated with Jesus. We must be careful, however, in that analogy. The first verse speaks of having been created and Jesus is not created but, rather, begotten. There is a difference and we need to preserve that difference. The “fight” at Nicea and Constantinople when the creed we know as the Nicene from the Eucharistic liturgy was over this very issue and Athanasius, in the creed that bears his name, sought to make this distinction plain. The words, of one being with the Father, mean of the same essence, as opposed to the image of God. What they tell us is that whatever God “is”, Jesus “is” in contradistinction to us. We are created of other created stuff, not of the same essence as God. We have, however, been given His Spirit to dwell in this flesh as a foretaste of what will be when we have new, imperishable bodies.
When Judas goes to betray Jesus we are never told what was in Judas’ mind, but Jesus knew. We know what the disciples thought Jesus meant when He told Judas to quickly do what he had to do, but what did Judas think Jesus meant? The wisdom we just read about in Proverbs was part of Jesus’ makeup and He knew all things, had seen this moment from the beginning of time and yet here it is in real time and how would it go from here? Jesus is certain about what is next and tells the disciples exactly what will come and how they are to live after his death. There are many ways one can tell disciples. I can identify in my own life how I sometimes emulate those who have taught me and influenced my life and I can see it in others. Jesus says that His disciples will prove to be His own to the extent they love one another. The unspoken part of that is that they love one another because He loved them, a reality that John picks up in his 1st epistle in chapter 4, a fuller exposition of John 3.16.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of melody!
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!
27 December 2009
Psalm 93, 96; 1 Sam. 1:1-28; Col. 1:9-20; Luke 2:22-40
The birth of Samuel brings a new era in God’s relations with His people. The story of his birth, the story of his mother’s travails, is a beautiful one. The adjectives that describe Hannah prior to the birth tell of a woman whose life is complete misery to her and the annual trips to the festivals of celebration only serve to remind her that she has nothing to celebrate in spite of the love of her husband. The one thing she wants, however, is a child. It is quite possible that there is another wife because of Hannah’s barrenness and yet her husband loves her dearly. Can you imagine a priest accusing you of drunkenness based on watching you pray and how that accusation would be devastating, especially in this circumstance? Hannah, however, walks away from the encounter cheered. It is even more amazing that she gives this child to that same priest, but what she says is that she has lent him to the Lord. This one will be the Lord’s own, not Eli’s.
The buzz about Jesus begins. Simeon and Anna, two elderly prophets who hang around the temple in Jerusalem, speak words of truth about Jesus. Simeon’s prophecy is part of the Anglican liturgical heritage in Morning Prayer, his hymn of praise to God for fulfilling His promise to allow Him to see the Messiah. I wonder if he knew how incredible this One was. He saw all that would happen to Jesus, telling Mary, “a sword will pierce your own soul too.” Mary had much to ponder in her heart when she left Jerusalem and there is no doubt she remembered those words verbatim and tumbled them over and over in her heart and mind through the years, what did they mean?
Paul begins with a wonderful prayer for the Colossians and that prayer then leads him to incredible doxology (praise) for Jesus. Paul speaks of Jesus as the firstborn, before all things, the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. In all things Christ has pre-eminence, before creation and before re-creation. Everything finds its beginning in Him. The purpose and meaning of all things is in Him and all things find fulfillment in Him. Pondering the meaning of Jesus’ incarnation and death can and should consume our thoughts and always it should lead where it leads Paul here, praise.
Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth!
Psalm 93, 96; 1 Sam. 1:1-28; Col. 1:9-20; Luke 2:22-40
The birth of Samuel brings a new era in God’s relations with His people. The story of his birth, the story of his mother’s travails, is a beautiful one. The adjectives that describe Hannah prior to the birth tell of a woman whose life is complete misery to her and the annual trips to the festivals of celebration only serve to remind her that she has nothing to celebrate in spite of the love of her husband. The one thing she wants, however, is a child. It is quite possible that there is another wife because of Hannah’s barrenness and yet her husband loves her dearly. Can you imagine a priest accusing you of drunkenness based on watching you pray and how that accusation would be devastating, especially in this circumstance? Hannah, however, walks away from the encounter cheered. It is even more amazing that she gives this child to that same priest, but what she says is that she has lent him to the Lord. This one will be the Lord’s own, not Eli’s.
The buzz about Jesus begins. Simeon and Anna, two elderly prophets who hang around the temple in Jerusalem, speak words of truth about Jesus. Simeon’s prophecy is part of the Anglican liturgical heritage in Morning Prayer, his hymn of praise to God for fulfilling His promise to allow Him to see the Messiah. I wonder if he knew how incredible this One was. He saw all that would happen to Jesus, telling Mary, “a sword will pierce your own soul too.” Mary had much to ponder in her heart when she left Jerusalem and there is no doubt she remembered those words verbatim and tumbled them over and over in her heart and mind through the years, what did they mean?
Paul begins with a wonderful prayer for the Colossians and that prayer then leads him to incredible doxology (praise) for Jesus. Paul speaks of Jesus as the firstborn, before all things, the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. In all things Christ has pre-eminence, before creation and before re-creation. Everything finds its beginning in Him. The purpose and meaning of all things is in Him and all things find fulfillment in Him. Pondering the meaning of Jesus’ incarnation and death can and should consume our thoughts and always it should lead where it leads Paul here, praise.
Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth!
Friday, December 25, 2009
26 December 2009
Psalm 28, 30; 2 Chronicles 24:17-22; Acts 6:1-7
I don’t really know why there is no Gospel reading today.
How can God’s people abandon Him? God sends the prophet Zechariah to admonish them and call them to return to the Lord and their response, stone him. Jesus told a parable that clearly had this sorry episode in mind, the parable of the landowner who planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants who beat those who came to collect the rent and finally killed the son when he came. The prophet is trying to call them to their God and they decide the only good prophet is a dead prophet and his death presages what they will do to Jesus. From the beginning of Jesus’ life, the end was in view.
Some need to be set aside for the preaching of the Word. It is important, always has been, for some to devote themselves to the Word. Even today all the evidence points to the need and importance of pastors being devoted to the task of preaching. Those churches which are most evangelistically are those where the preacher spends 20 hours a week working on sermons. The task of preaching is vitally important but it takes more than a gifted speaker and a great illustration, it requires immersion in the Word and the realization that neither the gift of public speaking nor the illustration is the power, but the Word itself carried by the Holy Spirit. In order for the Body of Christ to reach its potential, clergy must primarily be devoted to the ministry of the Word and the laity must attend to most of the pastoral needs of the congregation and they must use their gifts to minister in the congregation and carry the burden of outreach, just like in the early church.
Blessed be the LORD!
For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The LORD is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.
The LORD is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Psalm 28, 30; 2 Chronicles 24:17-22; Acts 6:1-7
I don’t really know why there is no Gospel reading today.
How can God’s people abandon Him? God sends the prophet Zechariah to admonish them and call them to return to the Lord and their response, stone him. Jesus told a parable that clearly had this sorry episode in mind, the parable of the landowner who planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants who beat those who came to collect the rent and finally killed the son when he came. The prophet is trying to call them to their God and they decide the only good prophet is a dead prophet and his death presages what they will do to Jesus. From the beginning of Jesus’ life, the end was in view.
Some need to be set aside for the preaching of the Word. It is important, always has been, for some to devote themselves to the Word. Even today all the evidence points to the need and importance of pastors being devoted to the task of preaching. Those churches which are most evangelistically are those where the preacher spends 20 hours a week working on sermons. The task of preaching is vitally important but it takes more than a gifted speaker and a great illustration, it requires immersion in the Word and the realization that neither the gift of public speaking nor the illustration is the power, but the Word itself carried by the Holy Spirit. In order for the Body of Christ to reach its potential, clergy must primarily be devoted to the ministry of the Word and the laity must attend to most of the pastoral needs of the congregation and they must use their gifts to minister in the congregation and carry the burden of outreach, just like in the early church.
Blessed be the LORD!
For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The LORD is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.
The LORD is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
25 December 2009 – Christmas Day
Psalm 2, 85; Micah 4:1-5,5:2-4; 1 John 4:7-16; John 3:31-36
Out of many, one. That is the meaning of the Latin inscription on our money, e pluribus unum. That is also what today means, we whose ancestors followed after other gods that were not God now follow after the One, true God. The prophecy of Micah heralds that day, tells that the nations will come to seek the way of the Lord God of Israel. In Jesus, we who were far from God, strangers and enemies of the living God and His people, are now one in Christ Jesus. We seek to know the ways of the God who chose Israel, who chose Jerusalem as His earthly habitation, and who chose to come as an Israelite in the incarnation. His prayer for His followers in John 17 is that we would be one as He and the Father are one.
Jesus links obedience and belief. He makes claims about Himself, that He is sent by God, has knowledge of more than earthly things, is above all, and is speaking the words of God. More than this, the Father loves Him and has placed all things in His hands. Jesus says that belief in Him is essential. If we would know truth, we must receive it from Him. That doesn’t mean no one else can have a portion of the truth, but if we would know the entire truth it comes only through the One who later says, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Our call is to accept that claim and then transfer all our allegiance to Him, forsaking all others. Why do we need another teacher if this one is the truth embodied and there is no falsehood in Him? No one else can make that claim so even if they possess some truth, they don’t possess it all and they don’t claim that they are infallible with respect to truth.
Why did Jesus come? The incarnation is a love letter from God, delivered in person. He didn’t send a messenger like a prophet or priest to tell us He loves us, He came Himself. He loves us simply because He is God. His love tells us more about Him than about us. We are not lovely or loveable in ourselves. We are sinful messes who He chooses to love as creator and Father. Our love for God is in response to His love for us, always has been. The Israelites loved Him for His works on their behalf in bringing them out of Egypt and establishing them in their own land. We love Him because of what He has done for us in the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Our response to that is part vertical and part horizontal, we love Him and we love those whom He loves. That love is our way of witnessing to Him and if we don’t love then we aren’t of God who is love. Lift up your hearts to the Lord this day and give thanks for His lovingkindness in not leaving us as orphans but declaring Himself our adopted Father who has sent His only begotten Son to die that we might share in the inheritance of eternal life.
Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Yes, the LORD will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
Righteousness will go before him
and make his footsteps a way.
Psalm 2, 85; Micah 4:1-5,5:2-4; 1 John 4:7-16; John 3:31-36
Out of many, one. That is the meaning of the Latin inscription on our money, e pluribus unum. That is also what today means, we whose ancestors followed after other gods that were not God now follow after the One, true God. The prophecy of Micah heralds that day, tells that the nations will come to seek the way of the Lord God of Israel. In Jesus, we who were far from God, strangers and enemies of the living God and His people, are now one in Christ Jesus. We seek to know the ways of the God who chose Israel, who chose Jerusalem as His earthly habitation, and who chose to come as an Israelite in the incarnation. His prayer for His followers in John 17 is that we would be one as He and the Father are one.
Jesus links obedience and belief. He makes claims about Himself, that He is sent by God, has knowledge of more than earthly things, is above all, and is speaking the words of God. More than this, the Father loves Him and has placed all things in His hands. Jesus says that belief in Him is essential. If we would know truth, we must receive it from Him. That doesn’t mean no one else can have a portion of the truth, but if we would know the entire truth it comes only through the One who later says, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Our call is to accept that claim and then transfer all our allegiance to Him, forsaking all others. Why do we need another teacher if this one is the truth embodied and there is no falsehood in Him? No one else can make that claim so even if they possess some truth, they don’t possess it all and they don’t claim that they are infallible with respect to truth.
Why did Jesus come? The incarnation is a love letter from God, delivered in person. He didn’t send a messenger like a prophet or priest to tell us He loves us, He came Himself. He loves us simply because He is God. His love tells us more about Him than about us. We are not lovely or loveable in ourselves. We are sinful messes who He chooses to love as creator and Father. Our love for God is in response to His love for us, always has been. The Israelites loved Him for His works on their behalf in bringing them out of Egypt and establishing them in their own land. We love Him because of what He has done for us in the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Our response to that is part vertical and part horizontal, we love Him and we love those whom He loves. That love is our way of witnessing to Him and if we don’t love then we aren’t of God who is love. Lift up your hearts to the Lord this day and give thanks for His lovingkindness in not leaving us as orphans but declaring Himself our adopted Father who has sent His only begotten Son to die that we might share in the inheritance of eternal life.
Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Yes, the LORD will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
Righteousness will go before him
and make his footsteps a way.
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