Psalm 51 and the prayer of Chris Martin
Jan
29
Written by:
1/29/2009 9:14 AM
"Lights will guide you home -- And ignite your bones -- And I will try to fix you"
I was teaching Sunday School so wasn't in the service this week. I tried listening to the Sermon online two separate times but it was so scattered that I couldn't follow it. Maybe it's me. I would suddenly realize that I hadn't been listening for the past few minutes and I had no idea what was going on. I decided to skip this one.
The next line of the Communion Prayer is this: "Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit."
In Sunday School we read Pslam 51 and looked at a story from The Voyage of the Dawn Treador where Eustace, who has been turned into a dragon, has an interaction with Aslan in which Aslan carefully and painfully removes the scales from Eustace's body so that he's no longer a dragon. He's now just a naked and vulnerable little child. Then Aslan dresses him in new clothes. This is beautiful and I think it's what we all long for.
To be cleansed by the Holy Spirit...
To have new hearts created in us...
To have the scales ripped away...
To be dressed in new clothes...
To be fixed...
"Tears stream down your face -- When you lose something you cannot replace -- Tears stream down your face -- And I will fix you"