“For
the sake of my brethren and my loved ones, I will say now, ‘Peace be in you’.”
(Psalms 122:8)
King David tells us that in Jerusalem converges all
that unites and bonds everything and everyone. In this unity and togetherness
we live in the awareness of peace.
Our brothers, sisters and loved ones are those who in
their own individual diversity share goodness as the bond that connects us with
each other, and peace is its utmost expression. Hence we pursue peace as the
encompassing and integrating awareness that makes us also connected to God.
“For
the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I seek goodness for you!” (122:9)
God’s house is the Sanctuary that He has established
for Him to dwell among (in) us here in this world, and as King David has
pointed out often, goodness is our bond with Him. Hence we pursue goodness for
the sake of our connection with the Creator.
“Those
who trust in the Lord are like mount Zion that is not moved, [for] it sits
forever.” (125:1)
Trust is based on what we know or believe as something
by which we live and conduct our life. Trusting God is living by what He
represents that keeps us alive to prosper with it and for it. Therefore our
Creator is the ethical ruling principle by which we exist to live it and
experience it in this world.
The psalmist compares this principle to the unmovable
mountain named Zion and to its eternal quality, for the fact that God’s
eternity sits on it; as it is reiterated in the next verse.
“Jerusalem!
Mountains surround her, and the Lord surrounds His people from here to
eternity.” (125:2)
Mountains represent unshakable beliefs, ground rules
and guidelines by which we direct our lives. As our connecting bond with God,
Jerusalem is set on a mountain surrounded by a wall, and also by mountains that
reaffirm the prevalence of goodness as the primordial principle in which all
levels, aspects and dimensions of human consciousness are destined to be
conducted.
In the same way that we are guided by goodness, and
protected by its ethical qualities, God also guides His people eternally.
Here
we must understand that His will, as well as His ways and attributes exist
forever; and, as long as we live in their goodness, we are indeed protected by
Him.
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