For the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time…
Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
Psalm 95:6-7
Psalm 95 comes to us like an old friend, whose wise words invite us to prayer, to worship. God is god, and we are not… and we owe him his due. But not out of servile fear, but out filial love. A relationship is being described here.
God is the one who made us, who brought us into existence, desiring our being made in his image and likeness. This is our identity as Children of God: He, the Heaven Father, is our God, and we are his.
This ought to be recalled by us every time we draw near to God in prayer. This is our starting point for prayer: We always have his invitation, his ear, his heart.
Lord, let me first praise you and thank you. Then let me have the freedom to pour out my heart to you, no matter the joys, the sorrows, the madness, or the confusion. Guide me as your own, for you already know me.
