Psalm 95

Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.

Does our discomfort over God’s judgment come from the fear of taking sides? Or the fear of being found on the wrong one?

It is tempting to sit in judgment on others. Sometimes we do it in jest, as Mark Twain did when commenting on Adam. “Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” But sometimes the serpent eats us, and then we judge in earnest.