Attributing Worth

 

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.

—Psalm 28:7

One of our greatest joys, as followers of Jesus, is the daily opportunity we have to thank God for His divine Presence in our lives through the in-dwelling Holy Spirit. In fact, worshipping God—that is, attributing worth to God for who He is—should fill our hearts and minds with enormous peace. Nothing can make our world explode with light more rapidly than taking time to acknowledge the attributes that God has revealed to us about Himself in His precious written Word.

The poet Edward Estlin “E. E.” Cummings led a very controversial life. Sadly, especially in the cultural climate of our day, many of his poems would spark a riotous mob to burn down buildings. However, in the midst of a life that would make many shudder, he did write some amazing poems, including the one reproduced below.

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

In this related video, renowned composer Eric Whitacre, conducts the Netherlands choral group “VU Kamerkoor” in singing his composition based on the above poem. Please watch this video.

 

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