“But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.”
Psalm 74:12 (NIV)
The psalm is the prayer of the people of Judah while in the darkness prophesied by Micah in verses 8 thru 10 in chapter 7. The temple is destroyed, their enemy mocks their God, they have no signs from God, nor do they have a Word from God through a prophet. But they do have the words of Micah and Isaiah and Jeremiah and the other prophets of long ago, and so they know and believe that God will save them - as verse 12 of this Psalm states so emphatically. They believe and yet while they are in the midst of the darkness it feels like forever - “O God, why have you rejected us forever?”
Now we know looking back by reading the birth account of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke that God did not reject them forever. We know by reading the crucifixion account of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel that God did not forsake His Son forever, but raised Him from the dead and we know from the Gospels and the Epistles that those of us who believe in Christ Jesus are born again into His life, and we are in Him, never to be rejected again. So we know in our heads that the trouble that come to us, the darkness that overwhelms us at times is not forever and has a perfecting purpose- but our souls need to be told what our heads know.
Don’t miss this in the Psalms - don’t miss the truth that the psalms are songs, meant to be sung, for our souls need to hear in the midst of the trouble that has come upon us that -“God is my King from long ago, He brings salvation on the earth.”
Most of the time we can listen to music as David did and have our souls comforted, but there are times when we need to say the words with our own lips, when our soul desperately needs to hear what our head already knows.
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