KNOWING YOU BETTER PSALM

KNOWING YOU BETTER PSALM

This psalm shows some signs of having been written a while ago! But the point is still topical, I hope, even if the examples are old. It is the way in which good and bad seem to be around together, as Jesus said, like the weeds amid the harvest fields. I feel the need to sort things out, on God's behalf. But, actually, God is quite capable of doing that..

1. My God, I want to know you better:

help me begin to understand what I want to be.

2. Life is always a contradiction:

good and bad are in a muddle, and they're inside me.

3. South Africa the old enemy is moving into freedom:

Archbishop and President have grown to maturity,

4. in England women can also be priests:

the issues divide so many yet liberate also.

5. How can you allow such resurrection:

how can we please you amidst the mess of life?

6. Does good have to be so mixed up with evil:

is it possible to know what I really want to do?

7. Better to remain silent and still to be:

worse to be speaking clearly but to pretend!

8. I cannot know anything of you without pain:

for the world is so awful and I want such good.

9. Will you make me suffer too, in order to know:

do I have to go through dying to be close to you,

10. for if it's really you that I'm trying to find:

the tearing away of other things is painful birthing.

11. How can I know what I really want:

do I have to be embroiled in such suffering?

12. "I decided to know only Jesus - the Christ that is crucified:"

so faith isn't found in wisdom, but in your power alone.