May 21st

Numbers 30     Isaiah 22     Psalms 74     (Click on the Reference to go to the passage)

Psalm 74

Psalm 74 is a lament for the way the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and defiled by the Chaldeans who had sworn to utterly subdue God’s people and had burned all the meeting places of God in the land. The psalmist is desperate for God to act. He cries out to God asking when will he come and remember and deliver his people who he “purchased of old”. He sees no sign of God acting or of prophets to lead the way and say when their suffering might come to an end. But then he remembers who God is – a “king from of old working salvation in the earth.” he acknowledges that God has established the heavens and the seasons and therefore can be victorious over his enemies. He begs God to come and defeat his enemies.

This God is the same yesterday today and forever . We can remember what he has done – he has rescued us through Jesus; he is faithful and will not let us go. Even during those times when it seems as though those who oppose God are doing well and making the church seem weak and insignificant we can be sure that our God, the Creator God who controls and sustains all things, is still walking with us and hears and understands our prayers. When we are faced with difficulties we cannot overcome by ourselves he is there to hear us and to intervene. It is for us to ask him for help and trust in his goodness and his timing and to continue to praise him for all he is and all he has done.

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