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Sunday Psalms;
O God, 
why have you rejected us so long? 
Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture?
Remember that we are the people you chose long ago, the tribe you redeemed as your own special possession!
And remember Jerusalem, your home here on earth.
Psalm 74:1-2 NLT
Asaph is really not happy. 
And a big chunk of his Psalm is all about the terrible things that are happening in the world.
Ruined cities.
Enemies running riot. 
No prophets of God left.
And God seems to be doing nothing, and that's why Asaph interprets that as God rejecting him, God being angry with him, actively working against him.
And that's how it can seem to us too right? 
When all we focus on is the mess in the world.
When someone we care about is hurt, gets ill, dies.
When we consider the things done to us.
The hurts.
The harm.
And we wonder if God is our enemy. 
Just like Asaph.
The first thing from this song we can take is that it's OK to feel that way. 
It's all here in the middle of our Bible, it's part of being human. 
The second thing is that Asaph wrote it down. It's good to express our heart, our thoughts, our emotions, out loud somewhere. 
Asaph's song is not pleasant, but real. 
Our God is always OK with us keeping it real.
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