Psalm 74
People with faith never need to despair, Right?
Wrong - totally wrong in fact, faith does not make the questions go away, nor does it always answer them - I think of myself as a person of faith and if you have read much of my blog you will know that I have a shed load of questions, a bucketful of doubts and a whole mountain of things I don't know!
This Psalm is written from the point of a person of faith I think, Asaph, the author I don't know much about - if anybody knows his story please share it.
O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed - Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has bought on the sanctuary.
Verse 9
We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.
It seems to me that Asaph and this Psalm date from the time that Judah has been finally destroyed. The Bible falls silent for about 400 years.
Verse 12 - 17 talk about the acts of God in the past during creation.
The Psalm ends with a request that God rescues the and not to ignore his enemies.
For me the big thing in this Psalm are the questions and, almost anger to a God who does not appear to care with a vital central section in verse 12 that starts with "But"
But God is my king from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.
Among the questions there is a rock of certainty that is Immortal - Sometimes we land on the rock with a heck of a thump and sometimes we have nothing else but to cling tight to the rock amid the turmoils of life falling to pieces.
People with faith never need to despair, Right?
Wrong - totally wrong in fact, faith does not make the questions go away, nor does it always answer them - I think of myself as a person of faith and if you have read much of my blog you will know that I have a shed load of questions, a bucketful of doubts and a whole mountain of things I don't know!
This Psalm is written from the point of a person of faith I think, Asaph, the author I don't know much about - if anybody knows his story please share it.
O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed - Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has bought on the sanctuary.
Verse 9
We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.
It seems to me that Asaph and this Psalm date from the time that Judah has been finally destroyed. The Bible falls silent for about 400 years.
Verse 12 - 17 talk about the acts of God in the past during creation.
The Psalm ends with a request that God rescues the and not to ignore his enemies.
For me the big thing in this Psalm are the questions and, almost anger to a God who does not appear to care with a vital central section in verse 12 that starts with "But"
But God is my king from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.
Among the questions there is a rock of certainty that is Immortal - Sometimes we land on the rock with a heck of a thump and sometimes we have nothing else but to cling tight to the rock amid the turmoils of life falling to pieces.
No comments:
Post a Comment