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This week we begin worship with:

Psalm 85:10-13

Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from

the sky. Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.

Steadfast love and Faithfulness never ceased, but they were no longer working together.  Righteousness and Peace had not seen each other since the Garden of Eden.  

For when sin entered the world, Righteousness retreated to heaven and Peace splintered into the isolation caused by hiding from God.  So, Steadfast Love and Faithfulness were separated by the gulf that was caused.

But here, we are witnessing their grand reunion, and a grand blessing for our good that the Psalmist knows will become the Way (dereḵ).

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.