Sunday, June 23, 2013

Thoughts on Psalm 73


v.2-3
There are just days when I look around and see people who seem to have life made and everything goes right for them. It's hard sometimes to remind myself that just because I don't see the problems and pain and everything going on in their lives doesn't mean it's not there. And no matter how bad off I seem to have it, God is always working in my life for HIS good. Sometimes He is working silently, sometimes it's only a little bit at a time. But He IS working.
v.21-22
Before I realize (or more like when God shows me) what He is doing I often feel like the writer of this Psalm: bitter and hurt, and like a stupid animal. Here God is doing all this great stuff in my life and because I'm too short-sighted to see it I get upset and feel like i'm not being treated fairly. How ridiculous is that? That human nature is so selfish that we want everything to go well for us, and if it doesn't we must blame someone as if it is a problem that needs to be fixed. Just because life isn't going "great" doesn't mean there's anything wrong. God is still in control.
v.24
But despite acting like this and constantly forgetting His promises, God will still receive us with honor. Even when i've acted like a spoiled child and really don't deserve it.
v.25-26
I must rely (depend on with full trust or confidence) on God completely, because he is all I really have to hope in. He is truly "all I ever need."

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