AGENTS OF SALVATION
Today's reading: Psalm 131-133

"Your priests will be agents of salvation..." Psalm 132:9 NLT

"I will make its priests the agents of salvation;.." Psalm 132:16 NLT

Funny thing, Bible translations. How modern terms, at times, line up quite nicely--and at other times, there is little correlation between what was written thousands of years ago and what we say or understand now.

Take these verses, for instance.

In the King James Version, these verses state that the priests 'shall be clothed in righteousness'. In the New Living Translation, 'agents of salvation'.

Have these words been chosen because we, in 2015, don't know what clothing of righteousness look like? What would that uniform look like? Is the clothing of righteousness even made these days?

Have we come to accept the idea of 'agents' as something stalwart, steady, unmoving, completely backing their beliefs? Do you, like me, picture the dark suits, the dark glasses, the behind the scenes, sly movements of the agents we've watched on television? Do you think of someone representing another, an 'unknown'?  Do you think of a sold-out, no-matter-what-I'll-serve-till-the-end servant?

An agent of God dressed in clothing of righteousness--would that describe any one of us?

God has appointed this whole life to be all as a race or a battle; the state of rest, wherein we shall be so out of danger as to have no need of watching and fighting, is for another world.- Jonathan Edwards