Why the Psalmist Asaph holds to God’s
justice & wrath against sinners: faithfulness to God’s covenant people. “If
I had said, ‘I will speak thus,’ behold, I would have betrayed the generation
of Your children” (Psalm 73:15).
Where the Psalmist Asaph found
re-affirmation in biblical truth against the temptation (73:2) of the false
belief of the world (that God ignores sin just like we do, see 73:11): the
gathering of God’s covenant people. “When I pondered to understand this, it was
troublesome in my sight until I came into the sanctuary of God; then I
perceived their end” (73:16,17).
What the Psalmist Asaph confesses
after remembering his place among God’s covenant people: the presence,
protection, and testimony of the works of God (including His judgment against
sin, see 73:18-20,27). “But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have
made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works” (73:28).
Saint, do not forget your place & responsibility among the gathering of the covenant people of God. Do not pridefully and ignorantly (73:21,22) reject how God uses them to correct your vision of Who He is and the fullness of His work and character, including the first truths we reject when imbibing of a worldly, Scripture-less view of God: His just wrath and judgment against sin.
Don't neglect the gathering, beloved Church!
Saint, do not forget your place & responsibility among the gathering of the covenant people of God. Do not pridefully and ignorantly (73:21,22) reject how God uses them to correct your vision of Who He is and the fullness of His work and character, including the first truths we reject when imbibing of a worldly, Scripture-less view of God: His just wrath and judgment against sin.
Don't neglect the gathering, beloved Church!
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