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  1. Open your eyes and look around<\/em>. Verses 6, 16, 18-20 call for taking a different perspective on reality. Between the lines, we understand how hard this is to put into practice.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Gentle, now.<\/em> The servant of God, in his activities for justice and righteousness in the world will treat the weak and disadvantaged with special consideration. \u201cHe shall not break even a bruised reed,\u201d which can\u2019t even stand on its own. \u201cOr snuff out even a dim wick,\u201d which barely burns. \u201cHe shall bring forth the true way\u201d (verse 3). The height of gentleness.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Light unto the nations<\/em> (verse 6). This is the source of the expectation that the Jewish people will be a light unto the nations. So we should take care to read the fine print and see what exactly is expected of us.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Like a prison<\/em>. Being alone in the darkness of a prison cell is the most depressing thing imaginable. Thus, \u201cRescuing prisoners from confinement, From the dungeon those who sit in darkness,\u201d is the height of redemption.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Like a birth.<\/em> Birth is an occasion of \u201cbreaking of vessels.\u201d The entire physical experience of the mother expresses this transformation. \u201cI have kept silent far too long, Kept still and restrained Myself\u201d – until now I have kept quiet, God says of himself, but starting now: \u201cI will scream like a woman in labor, I will pant and I will gasp\u201d (verse 14), and the whole world will hear and feel the change, the new reality that was born from the scream.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","image":{"ID":86314,"id":86314,"title":"Points to ponder","filename":"Points-to-ponder.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-psalm-84\/points-to-ponder\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"points-to-ponder","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":86166,"date":"2021-01-09 20:56:58","modified":"2023-12-28 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