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Luke 10:25
Luke 10:25-37
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An elderly pastor stepped off the curb to begin crossing the street. A motorist honked at him and he leaped in alarm. The frightened clergyman’s companion tried to ease the tension with a friendly taunt. “Why did you jump like that at a mere auto horn? You are always talking about faith, and the mercy of God, and heaven as your true home.” To which the pastor replied with a confident smile, “Yes, that’s true. Heaven is my true home. But right now I’m not in the least homesick.”
The 137th Psalm is the lament of a person who is homesick. The Hebrew people are away from their homeland, unable to return. And out of the loneliness and the depression and the pain of that homesickness comes the Psalmist’s cry:
By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
…our captors required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one…
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