I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Comment: Verse 8 at the end of yesterday’s passage reads ‘By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.’ And I thought that after the heart-rending trials which had taken him to extremis, I thought he had settled into thankfulness and hope, But this sounds very different! It is not a psalm of David but a psalm of Korah. Briefly the story of Korah is like this – as found in Numbers 16. Korah led a revolt against Moses; he died, along with all his co-conspirators, when God caused “the earth to open her mouth and swallow him and all that appertained to them” (Numbers 16:31-33). In the end of this psalm he sounds as if he has given into despair again. And we all. in some ways walk along a very testing pathway. As the Bible and many Christian writers give evidence – the devil is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, I gain the impression that this rebellious man, Korah, was the writer of a number of Psalms. I am glad that I am not the Judge but it is so disappointing, humbling, to see great soldiers in God’s army make a mess of their life.
Prayer: As pants the hart for cooling streams so pants my heart for Thee, and Thy refreshing Grace, O Lord
As I read it! 