“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
The Loneliness
This psalm names both good and pleasant together here, worth examining directly, worth holding as this movement’s own needed, positive testimony, genuine unity among brethren named not merely as dutiful obligation but as this described, actual, felt pleasure, worth trusting this positive quality as genuinely available.
This is worth applying against however much your own experience of church community has felt more obligatory than this described, genuine pleasantness, worth examining honestly whether this psalm’s own positive testimony has actually characterized your own experience of genuine, actual belonging.
Notice behold, worth holding as this psalm’s own invitation to actually notice and appreciate this described goodness, worth considering what specifically, in your own current community, might genuinely deserve this same, deliberate, positive attention and appreciation, worth practicing today.
Consider today one specific way your own experience of genuine community has actually been good and pleasant, and practice deliberately noticing and appreciating this, following this psalm’s own positive invitation, worth holding this alongside whatever difficulty community also, honestly sometimes includes.
Live As Family
- Consider one specific way your own community has genuinely been good and pleasant.
- Practice deliberately noticing and appreciating this today, following this psalm’s positive invitation.
- Hold this genuine pleasantness alongside whatever difficulty community also honestly includes.
Prayer
Lord, behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Let me genuinely notice and appreciate this goodness in my own community today. Amen.
Carry this today
Genuine community can actually be good and pleasant, not merely dutiful, obligatory endurance.