Our own soul’s echo of God’s holy longing

 Morning: Psalm 69:1-38; Revelation 17:1-18

Evening: Psalm 73; Luke 13:31-35

German writer, Johann Goethe, in his poem, Holy Longing, wrote: “Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away ... So long as you haven't experienced this - to die and so to grow - you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.” God’s holy longing is that we might no more be ruled by deathly powers. Our willingness to die to those powers (hatred, selfishness, greed ... the list is long), and so to grow, is our own soul’s echo of God’s holy longing. Thus to die is to live.