Sin, Chastisement, Repentance

Synopsis Psalms 78:69-80:8 1/10/2022 

As the psalmist wrote, Jerusalem had been invaded and many of the people killed. In fact, so many died that they wasn’t anyone left to bury the dead. 

As so, the psalmist and the people wondered aloud. “God, will you always be angry?” they asked. And they begged God to have compassion on the people. They said to God, “Free those doomed to death. Then your people will give you thanks and praise you.” 

Sin Chastisement and Repentance 

I read the Psalms and the Israelite historical accounts in scripture. As I do, faithlessness, chastisement and repentance become mind-numbingly common patterns of behavior repeated over and over again. So much so, I wonder how those people could be so dull and lack solidarity. 

Of course, anytime I say “those people”, I’m usually headed in the wrong direction. And so, I find myself doing the very same things that seemed so obviously faithless when I read their accounts just moments before.  

“Have the same regard for one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; do not be wise in your own estimation.” Rom 12:16