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Lent 4
Devotional
Water From the Rock
Lectionary Devotional for Cycle C
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me ...
-- Psalm 32:4
There is a weight to sin that burdens us. It feels like the hand of God pressing down on our soul trying to squeeze out the impurity that has contaminated us. Perhaps we would be better off if we considered guilt not as a punishment for having done wrong but as the probing hands of a skilled surgeon trying to cleanse us of a cancer that is eating away at us. The psalmist declares, "Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."
-- Psalm 32:4
There is a weight to sin that burdens us. It feels like the hand of God pressing down on our soul trying to squeeze out the impurity that has contaminated us. Perhaps we would be better off if we considered guilt not as a punishment for having done wrong but as the probing hands of a skilled surgeon trying to cleanse us of a cancer that is eating away at us. The psalmist declares, "Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."
