soul food

this reading wasn't from my lectionary, but these texts came from the readings that will be in our church service this coming Sunday. typing out scriptures for the bulletin every week really gives me an opportunity to meditate on them, and this week a couple really struck me. i italicize the pungent words, phrases that wake my heart and mind.

from psalm 34

"Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed."

and again from psalm 34

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing."

from Micah 6:

"With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"

this is the King we serve, and how glorious!