Why do you hold back your hand, your
right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them! (Psalm 74:11)
This psalm
was likely written in the confused time after the destruction of Jerusalem by
the armies of Babylon. They smashed all
the carved paneling . . . they burned your sanctuary to the ground (vv.6,7).
The psalmist asks the question of God: What’s
it going to take to get your attention? If the destruction of your temple
doesn’t wake you from your slumber, what will?
There are
times we get to the end of our rope, thinking, God has got to do something now! And we are met with silence; it
feels like we are completely alone. Sometimes the rope breaks and we still
don’t hear from God. What’s with that?
We just plod
along, forcing ourselves to place one foot in front of the other, until finally
we’ve reached a safe place. And then somehow we recognize that God has been
with us all along. Even when it seemed we had been abandoned, God was doing his
best work on our behalf.
As the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts
(Isaiah 55:9).
One of the
hardest things in the world is trusting God when we don’t understand what he’s
up to.
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