Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

all things. Prepare yourself to receive God, who you want to possess him forever, desire for a long time. Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you (v. 4). If you have your own house, you are poor; if you have God’s, you are rich. In your own house you will fear robbers; of the house of God, he himself is the wall. Therefore those who dwell in your house possess the heavenly Jerusalem, without constraint, without pressure, without difference and division of boundaries— all have it, and each have all. Great are those riches. No one crowds each other. There is no lack there. Our immortal bodies will be sustained by contemplating God. How will it change us? “We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). We will never grow tired of the praise of God, of the love of God. If love could fail, praise could fail. But if love is eternal, as beauty is inexhaustible, do not fear that you are not able to praise and love him forever. Let us long for that life.