Day 98 - Psalms 96, 105, 106

As a door leads into a house, so the title of a psalm leads into understanding. Now this one has a heading as follows: “When the house was being built after the captivity.” You ask what house; the psalm shows you straightaway: “Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth.” There you are, that is what house it is. When the whole earth sings a new song, it is the house of God. It is built by singing, its foundations are believing, it is erected by hoping, it is completed by loving. So it is being built now, but it is dedicated at the end of the world. Let the living stones, then, come flocking together to the new song, come flocking all together and be fitted together into the fabric of God’s temple. Let them recognize their Savior and receive him as their occupant—St Augustine