Monthly Archive: April 2009

They are not uncommon metaphors in the Psalms, but one after the other they offer a wonderful barrage of imagery portraying the security, shelter, help and support that God's people can find in their God. This was the shelter that Jesus availed himself of, first and foremost, and by extension is available to all who are in Christ.

• Rock
• Refuge
• Tower
• Tent
• Wings

Psalm 61:2-4:…
2. From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,
3. For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.
4. Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah

Actually, I think all of those images are Exodus metaphors. I'm not sure about refuge, but the others are certainly images that God used of his protective relationship with his people in the wilderness. So these are not abstract, but concrete pictures, and they are pictures that are rooted in salvation history.

Anyway: Read. Chew on. Enjoy. … Oh - and take refuge!

Having come to the end of the Easter weekend, and having delivered many sermons / talks / meditations during the course of that weekend, it is refreshing to read Peter Leithart's Easter Homily for this year, and be fed and encouraged from the Scriptures for myself.

"Why do you seek the living among the dead?", the angel said to the first witnesses. It's a funny place to look - and yet, in many ways, it's where we often look too. Have a read.

It's Good Friday the day after tomorrow.

If, like me, you enjoy finding snippets to read to help you reflect on the events of Good Friday, may I recommend you take a visit to Steve Jeffery's blog, and read his post entitled The Deliverance of the Cross, where he reflects on Psalm 22, and why Jesus appropriates it in the way he does.

Maybe one day Steve will write a book of such thoughts.

Matthew Mason has been reading MacLeod's book Person of Christ.