IDOP 2011

Every Sunday at SCBC we begin our worship service with a responsive reading. We've been working our way through the Psalms for over a year. As I began putting the bulletin together for next week, I turned to the Psalm that we are going to recite, Psalm 124. I read it, and rejoiced that we would read this Psalm on the day that we celebrate, pray for, and worship with the persecuted Church.

“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side-- let Israel now say-- if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone the raging waters. Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth! We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped! Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”

To my persecuted brothers and sisters, “Our help is in the name of the LORD!”