Enough

"We write the psalms every day ..."

WHY DID God place so many Psalms in His Word? I mean, how many times can you read, "Hey, God, where are you?" They seem to be a few good moments padded by a lot of complaining. At least, they are until I have a bad morning, week, month. Then it hits me, something my mother always says: The one with the broader shoulders takes the blame. This part is me: And God has the broadest shoulders of all. He can take it, all our complaints, all our stumbles and curses.

One minister said his life had taken a wrong turn in his youth. He was running from God, angry at everything, and found himself in a seedy bar, one people shouldn't enter. Then God spoke. "What are you doin' here, son?" The minister said, without thinking, he replied, "What are YOU doin' here?" What WAS God doing in a bar?

“And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Mark 2:16-17)

Why did Jesus eat with sinners? Why did He forgive a legitimately convicted thief? Why did He say nothing when unjustly accused of crimes which would get Him hung? And there is your answer. Because He loved men enough to give up eternity and all His divinity to be finite. He went from what always was to an infant who knew nothing. What He released He has received again, He is eternal, He is God, except He is still and will always be human. He who formed humanity, who breathed life into it, resurrected it by becoming it and loving it to His fullest extent.

We write the psalms every day, with our curled fists and exclamations. We roll our care over on God angrily, sadly, or with some combo, and God hears us and sees us through the love He displayed at Calvary. Forever.

“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7)

“And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.” (Mark 15:3-5)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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