{"id":2051,"date":"2012-05-03T07:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:42:12","slug":"worship-frees-us-from-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Worship Frees Us from Self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another excerpt from Brueggemann&#8217;s sermon on Psalm 100 [&#8220;Psalm 100,&#8221;\u009d <em>Interpretation<\/em> 39 (1985): 65-69]. In this section he is making the point that worship along the lines called for in Psalm 100 is a summons to reorient life in light of the reality that God is our Creator and Shepherd.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>To sing in this way to Yahweh is to abandon self-groundedness<\/em>. A life without praise is more likely a life turned in on self. It is a life of autonomy and self-invention, which imagines that one is self-made, need answer no other and can rely on no other. Such a notion of self-groundedness is a pervasive temptation among us, which may lead to cynicism and anxiety or to pride and domination. But this psalm is an acknowledgment that life is a gift. Life is always and regularly to be referred back to the giver. Such ultimate submission of sheep to shepherd leaves one free and unencumbered by the burden of self-invention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another excerpt from Brueggemann&#8217;s sermon on Psalm 100 [&#8220;Psalm 100,&#8221;\u009d Interpretation 39 (1985): 65-69]. In this section he is making the point that worship along the lines called for in Psalm 100 is a summons to reorient life in light of the reality that God is our Creator and Shepherd. To sing in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Worship Frees Us from Self-reliance&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[292,113,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}