Psalms 55:19 · World English Bible
Psalms 55:19 Meaning God
God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.
What does Psalms 55:19 mean?
The one who abides of old is not a distant deity keeping score. It is the deep awareness that was here before your story began and remains beneath all your turmoil.
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The one who abides of old is not a distant deity keeping score. It is the deep awareness that was here before your story began and remains beneath all your turmoil. The psalmist, betrayed and frightened, senses that this presence hears everything and is not disturbed.
Those who have no changes are those whose lives never break open. Comfort has closed them. Because nothing has shaken them awake, they feel no reverence and remain asleep in the surface of things. It is often loss and upheaval that crack the shell of the ego, and only then does a person turn toward the stillness that was always there.
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Live Psalms 55:19 today
- When something falls apart today, a plan, a plan B, a device, pause before fixing it and feel the part of you that is watching it all happen. That part is not panicking.
- If someone you know is going through a hard stretch, do not rush to cheer them up. Sit with them in it. Being unshaken beside someone is worth more than advice.
- When comfort makes you numb, late evening scrolling, the same show again, stop for a moment and feel how asleep you have gotten. That small waking is enough for today.
What has shaken me awake before, and am I drifting back off?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The water that reflects clearly is the water that is still. Agitation does not stop the depth from being there.
Buddhism
The young prince was shielded from every hard sight until he saw age, sickness and death. Seeing suffering plainly is what started him on the path.
Stoicism · Seneca
Seneca calls a man unfortunate who has never met misfortune, because he has passed through life without an opponent. No one, himself included, ever learns what he was capable of.
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