Coming into the presence of the living God should bring us to our knees at the very least (although we seem to have stopped kneeling in church) as we reflect on Abraham Lincoln’s words that “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” He also wrote:
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had nowhere else to go”¦Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been
a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however”¦is to
deny that there is a God governing the world.
When there is no conception of judgment, or justice, or “a difference of purpose” to define what is meant by the love of God, we are left in a helpless situation….
Umm..even I, an ignorant Catholic with close to no knowledge of the OT knows that Lincoln was just quoting Psalm 19:9. They are not Lincoln’s words.
And some of us still kneel in church.