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The Wisdom of God: Pour on Praise June 13, 2021 Dr. Thomas Pace Song of Solomon 4:1-4 O God, Open Us Up The Wisdom of God: Pour on Praise June 13, 2021 Dr. Thomas Pace Song of Solomon 4:1-4 O God, open us up. Open our eyes that we might see and our ears that we might hear. Open our hearts that we might feel. And then, O Lord, open our hands that we might serve. Amen. Two experiences, both of which were related to a memorial service, spoke to me over the last few weeks. And I was thinking about them as I was planning this message. One was at a family meeting to plan a memorial service. The daughter-in-law of the person who was deceased said, "You know he wrote me a letter after my mother died and he told me that he was proud of me. I'm not sure if anyone else has ever said that to me." I was kind of stunned but I thought, "What an impact that one thing had made on her. That he said, "I’m proud of you." In the other case it was when we were actually in the memorial service and various family members were sharing a witness. It was an informal service and various family members were sharing a witness about the person who had passed away. One woman said, "You know, every time I saw him, he told me how awesome I was. He was my uncle and every time I saw him, he told me how awesome I was." Wow - I thought a lot about that! We're in a series in the writings of Solomon - that's the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs. And we're talking about what it means to be wise and how to live a wise life - how to make wise pragmatic decisions. And how to spend our energy and our time in wise ways. Last week we talked about living a life of passion and passionately pursuing the people that we love and the God that we love. But we said we had t be really careful with living this kind of passionate life because we're messing with God's stuff. It's dangerous and complicated. It's nuanced, the wisdom there is challenging. But today's message is really simple. Today's message is not always easy but it's really simple. A wise person pours on praise. To let the people and the God that you love know how much you love them, how you're proud of them. Pour it on. Don't ever assume that they already know. Just pour on praise. Two things I want to tell you today. One is that wise people make a habit of praising others. I'm sure you remember reading when you were high school or middle school The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. And I'm sure that you remember what happened in chapter 17 when Tom and Huck have disappeared, and everyone thinks they're dead. They have a funeral for them, and Tom and Huck go to their own funeral. The only reason is they want to listen to everyone speak about how wonderful they are. That everybody ought to have the chance of hearing everyone say just how wonderful they are. It's a wonderful scene and it's great when they walk back in, and everyone sees them. There's actually a place in South Korea called the Hyowon Healing Center that over the last years has developed this model of having mock funerals for people. I'll talk more about it when we get to the sermon about Ecclesiastes, but it's a picture of experiencing your own funeral to make you aware of the preciousness of life. But part of it is to hear what people speak about you. It's a remarkable thing. I've come to believe that there is an epidemic in our country of feeling unappreciated. Of unvalued, of people not believing that they matter. And when we speak words of praise, when we pour on the praise we speak into that soft spot in their hearts and in their lives. We fill that empty place within them. It's true in marriage. This passage as we learned last week - the whole Song of Songs is erotic love poetry between a man and a woman, between a groom and a bride. Just to learn from this groom the language he uses profusely to pour out praise upon the bride to be. Listen again, "How beautiful you are my love, how very beautiful your eyes are doves, behind your veil your hair like a flock of goats moving down the slopes of Gilead." It goes on: "Your lips are a crimson thread; your mouth is lovely." Just the other day I looked at Dee and I said, "Your hair is like a flock of goats coming down the Mount of Gilead." It didn't go well. I said, "Your neck is like a tower of David with the shields of so many warriors buckled on." Okay, maybe we need to update the language and the imagery just a little bit. But that bit of effusively pouring out praise on the people we love, letting them know they are beautiful to us, that they’re valued, that they’re awesome. Now obviously external beauty is part of it, but internal beauty is really what matters. To talk about character, to recognize the beautiful parts of the people we love, and to lift those out and to speak them aloud. 2 When we talk about difficulties in marriage, we often find ourselves focusing on the negative like, "Here's the problem. Here's the thing that people don't do well or do wrong." When the truth is that if we focus on the things we do right, if we continue pour on praise about all those things the other things find their perspective. Our perspective on those other things changes. You know, what happens is so much of the time the people that we love the most we feel most secure around. We trust them. So we don't feel like we have to invest the energy in reminding them that we love them, and we care for them. Because we feel secure in them. But there's a really short walk from feeling secure in a relationship to taking it for granted. To just begin to allow that relationship to be taken for granted. And not to water the grass, not to pour on the praise. Friends, it's not a difficult, or a complicated practice, or habit. Pour on the praise. It's not just true in a marriage; it's also true in our relationship with our friends and our co-workers as well. As we were planning for this sermon this week, I had a conversation with a group of our staff. I said, "Okay, I need to know the rules around work. Is it appropriate to say to someone else at work, 'You look really nice today'? Is it appropriate to make comments about what they look like or what they're wearing?” It started a rather lively conversation about what is appropriate and not appropriate in the workplace. There were varying opinions and what struck me was that we have to be really careful. Because what we say is not always interpreted the way we intend for it to be. So we tread lightly. So what we need to focus on is not what someone looks like, but we should focus on who they are, what their gifts and strengths are. Jim Ozier came to work with our staff ten years ago I think it was. He and his friend Fiona had been trainers and worked with Southwest Airlines, training them in hospitality and great customer service. One of the techniques he taught I thought was so wonderful. He said, “When you introduce someone to someone else, you want to lift up what is awesome, what is great, what are the spiritual gifts of the person you're introducing." So I'd say, "I want you to meet Rob Landes, our organist. He is the most amazing organist anywhere. He can play anything completely by ear. An incredible organist. "Now if Rob is hearing me make that introduction what does that say to Rob? Or I might say, "I want you to meet Cliff Ritter our Pastor of Congregational Care. He's the most compassionate person I think I've ever met." What that says to both the person that is receiving the introduction and the person you're introducing - what an impact. And what if you just texted your friend and said, "You know what's amazing about you 3 is that no matter what the situation is, you always take the time to listen to me." To pour on the praise. It matters to the people who serve us. To those people who are First Responders and frontline workers. I don't know if you remember how in March of last year when the pandemic had just broken out and was going crazy, New Yorkers at 7:00 every night would come out on their roofs or open their windows and clap and bang pots together. It was all aimed at the shift change of workers as a way of saying how much they appreciated them. They praised those hospital workers and First Responders and wait staff and grocery store workers. And all of those people who were willing to serve in that time. The social media campaign statement was "Clap because we care" Hashtag "Clap because we care." It was an awesome thing to see almost the whole country pouring on praise.
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