Prayer: Hallelujah, thine the glory! Hallelujah, amen. Hallelujah, thine the glory! Revive us again.
Reading: Psalm 85 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: There is an old, old hymn with a refrain of the words of the prayer above. It's a moldy oldie or an oldie but goodie depending on how you feel about it. That is, if you even know it. Either way, our Psalm today has the words revive us again. We think of a critically ill or injured person being revived back to life. We hope to feel revived after getting through a difficult time or challenge. Being revived is linked with the idea of survival. But with that mindset, we may look back and groan about what we had just endured or we may look ahead and dread what could be next. Are we revived just to survive? Why does the Psalmist ask for us to be revived? So that we can REJOICE! We have God's steadfast love and salvation. So we respond, Hallelujah, thine the glory! Hallelujah, amen. Hallelujah, thine the glory! Revive us again. --Ruth Gates
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