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Psalms 133:1 · World English Bible

Psalms 133:1 Meaning See How Good and How Pleasant It

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

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What does Psalms 133:1 mean?

The good and pleasant state is the gathering of a person's own scattered faculties into a single accord. The brethren are the many powers of the one self, the diverse inner tribes that ordinarily pull apart, and their dwelling together in unity is the harmony that arises when mind, feeling, and will cease their contention and hold one center.

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The good and pleasant state is the gathering of a person's own scattered faculties into a single accord. The brethren are the many powers of the one self, the diverse inner tribes that ordinarily pull apart, and their dwelling together in unity is the harmony that arises when mind, feeling, and will cease their contention and hold one center. What is called sweet is not a company of separate people but the reconciled household within, every faculty tuned to the same key.

The delight described is the inner peace that comes when all the parts of a person, long at odds, settle into one common life and move as a single being.

Brethren: the many powers of the one self, the inner tribes that ordinarily pull apart and now hold one center

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Live Psalms 133:1 today

  1. Pick the thing you have been half-doing all week while thinking about something else, and do just that one thing for ten minutes with your phone in another room. The relief is not from finishing; it is from being in one piece.
  2. At dinner or on a call, be all the way there, not listening with one ear while a screen holds the other. The other person can feel the difference immediately, even if neither of you says so.
  3. When you are stretched thin and three things are urgent, stop and name what you actually want here. Half of the pressure is your own parts pulling in different directions at once.

Where in your day are you most divided against yourself?

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