Tomorrow our Psalm for the day is Psalm 146. It prepares our hearts for the Gospel text that tells us of two Gentiles whose friends bring their case to Jesus. One of the unique parts of the text is that Jesus and followers are not in Israel but have gone to Tyre and Sidon and then the Decapolis, Gentile territory. Even as the Magi appeared in the Christmas story, signaling the inclusion of Gentiles in the BHAG of` God, the Syrophonecian woman signals the inclusion of the Gentiles in the BHAG of God. The big, hairy audacious goals of God. The woman grabs the idiom Jesus throws to her that she is not one of the chosen people to eat the bread of life. She responds in great faith, I’m only asking for a crumb of grace! That is enough. Just a crumb!I
There are several nice worship songs that go with this psalm but I could not figure out how to copy the link so I have included the psalm to read and see how many crumbs of grace you can identify that David praises God for giving him.
Psalm 146
Praise the Lord, my soul.
2 I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
he remains faithful forever.
7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
8 the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
10 The Lord reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the Lord.
On the Way to Wonder 