I Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
It's hard to sing that song and not go on to the fifth stanza where the resolution comes, but we’ll be able to sing that, God willing, at the end of the service tonight. I love Luther's rendition of Psalm 130. You can sense his own investment in the truth of this psalm even in the way he paraphrases it, in the way that he roots it in the glorious story of Christ's redemption of it. Well we're in Psalm 130 tonight and when you approach this psalm you have to ask yourself a question — Is this a lament or is it a thanksgiving? And there's a translational issue. Do you render “I have cried to you, O LORD,” in verse 1, and then in verse 6, “My soul waited for the LORD,” so that this is looking back on a past experience that the psalmist has had and he's now…