Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament

by Ellen F. Davis

The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so. We hear that message affirmed in many different voices and in shifting moods: in the voices of the psalmists crying out to God across the full range of human emotions, from grief to joy, from uncontained rage to dumbfounded gratitude; and also in the voice of God, spoken through poets, storytellers, prophets, and teachers. As it turns out, God’s life is as complex as our own—and it is so, precisely because God’s life is bound up inextricably with ours.