Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, O gates!
and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
This passage comes from that great poetic tradition of personifying inanimate objects. The psalmist calls on the gates and the doors of all of Jerusalem to open because the King of glory is coming. I picture a cartoon-setting where the psalmist cries out "Lift up your heads, O gates!" and the gate wakes up quickly from a long slumber. The gate shakes off the last bits of sleep and opens up just in time to let the Lord pass through.
But what if we play with the personification in the other direction? What if we are the gates? What if we are the doors? Lift up your heads, O people! and be lifted up, O saints! that the King of glory may come in. This week, lift up your head and prepare yourself to be a vessel through which the King of glory can enter the world. Because you are a gate and a door. Thanks be to God!
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Join us for Thanksgiving worship tonight at 7. Bring a bag of groceries for the Palatine Food Pantry. Then join us on Thursday for our free community meal, 11-2. We begin Advent in worship next Sunday at 8:30 and 11.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment