Higher Obedience

I know that most of you, readers of my blog, don’t actually get to see me often or haven’t seen me a year or even more, so it doesn’t really matter to you whether I am based in Montréal or Sherbrooke, since we won’t see each other more or less because of my location, but I wanted to let you know that I’m not longer in Montréal. I am spending my summer in Sherbrooke where, obviously is my summer job. If you need my contact info, please drop me an email. I am quite excited about being in a different place where it feels more like a breathing city and not a cosmopolitan, ciment-filled, busy city. Don’t take me wrong, I do enjoy Montréal and wish they’d have metros in Sherbrooke. One thing I’m not looking forward to is finding a route to jog on. Jus walking around here is a sport with all these hills. The only place I’ve found to be flat for at least 25 minutes of jogging, if I make circles, is the shopping center parking lot. I know you wanted to know that eh.

I read a passage in the Psalms. Psalm 30:11-12, “You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.” I found verse 12 quite interesting. It’s rare that one’s glory sings about someone else’s praise, that one’s fame speak of someone else’s glory. Normally (well, it seems to me), that when glory is ascribed to person A, it is ascribed because of person A’s abilities, person A’s accomplishments, person A’s great deeds, thus person A’s glory speaks of its own fame, it sings its own praises. But David says that God blessed him in so many ways, so much that he has glory as the verse says. But the glory David has does not sing of David’s accomplishments and fame, it sings of the God of David, the One who blesses him.

Now I wonder about my own “glory”. I’m not sure what it is, but at times people praise me for some good things I’ve done or abilities I have. I wonder if my so-called “glory” sings back God’s praises or its own fame. Do I boast in myself or is it obvious that all the good in me is a gift from God?

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