Saturday, February 12, 2011

Psalm 104

You make darkness, and it is night, 
    when all the animals of the forest 
    come creeping out. 
The young lions roar for their prey, 
     seeking their food from God.
                                    Ps. 104: 21

Short and to the point: this way of thinking is so different from the way we think today in our "Enlightenment" society. The psalmist sounds more like very unscientific Native American or the Christians that I met in Ghana. God is written all over nature. God feeds us, not our own hands; God feeds us, not natural processes. Sure, the lion is not sitting in its den, waiting for his meal to come and insert itself in his mouth. A lion does what a lion does - but it is God who feeds him. Read the whole psalm. It is a completely joyful celebration of God and of nature, a nature that is created by God. And lions eating  their prey cause no theological or moral problems at all.

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