Commonplace –
“God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah” (Psalm 67:1).
Us. You and me. The church. All of us. Together.
Matthew Henry noted, the psalmist
“begins with a prayer for the welfare and prosperity of the church then in being, in the happiness of which he would share, and think himself happy, v.1. Our Saviour, in teaching us to say, Our Father, has intimated that we ought to pray with and for others; so the psalmist prays here not, God be merciful to me, and bless me, but to us, and bless us; for we make supplication for all saints, and be willing and glad to take our lot with them” (Henry 394).
Thank you, Lord, for and ‘us’, the communion of saints.
Works Cited
Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 67.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.
Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.
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