Worship.
Praise, love, respect, adoration.
What do these have to do with the writing convention of analogies?
Here’s the thing: An analogy is a comparison that explains something to us using something more familiar. Or picturesque. Or frightening. Or sad. Or moving … there are many ways to illustrate a comparison in an analogy.
Psalm 123:2 gives us one of the best uses of analogy in the Bible:
“Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.”
Let’s first find our analogies in this verse.
Analogy No. 1: “… as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master …”
Here we see the relationship of an employer to an employee. One person is in power (or in control), and the other can ask but not demand.
Analogy No. 2: “… as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress …”
This example is more personal, that of intimacy. The powerful invites the weaker into their most private affairs.
If you are familiar with analogies (and you’ve heard them all your life), you know these are still incomplete. We’re missing the part these familiar scenarios endeavor to explain.
“So our eyes look to the Lord our God.”
Psalms 123:2 is all about explaining how God sees our relationship with him. He is in control. We can seek his mercy, but we cannot make demands upon him. Yet, he invites us into his most intimate abode. We spend time with him and learn to know who he is at the very core of his being.
And he looks back at us with mercy … and grace, compassion, kindness … with love.
We receive the love of the Father when we offer our worship unto him.
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