Day 44: Be blessed!
Do things ever go wrong in your life?
Of course they do!
There are times when God seems to be nowhere and everything is going wrong.
This Psalm describes these feelings.
There is no nice ending to this song. “We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love”. v25,26.
Why does it end like this? Why doesn’t it end with a brighter hope? Simply because life doesn’t always have happy endings the way we think it should.
So how do we make sense of such bad times when there is no end in sight?
The answer is in v22 “Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered”.
This verse Apostle Paul quoted in Romans 8. He writes, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us”. Romans 8:35-37
Paul’s point is that it doesn’t matter about the outward circumstance so long as the inward is so strong. He refers to the Psalm to show that no matter what goes wrong in our lives, even with no happy endings, within us is the ability to stay strong, because of what the Psalmist describes as “unfailing love”.
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