Aside from being a hilarious diversion on a Wednesday morning, this clip demonstrates the way many people unwittingly use the Psalms. As a mantra, a way of pretending everything is fine when, in fact, the Psalms themselves are rife with lyrics to the contrary.
So, while we do come to worship in order to remember our sense of being oriented toward God, we also have to grapple honestly -- FAR more honestly than "serenity now" -- with the difficulties of our world and our lives.
Although I will be the first to confess I don't always do this well, I do believe that the morning prayer in worship, the prayers of intercession or the prayers of the people -- whatever you call it -- may be the most important battle field of the 75 minutes we spend together. But we can't really take up arms against sin & evil until we have first put down the pretense that "everything's just fine."
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