Sunday Psalms:

God, you have rejected us; you have broken us down; you have been angry. Restore us! 

You have shaken the land and split it open. 

Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

...

Save with your right hand, and answer me, 

so that those you love may be rescued.

Psalms 60:1-2, 5 CSB

This song was written about the events of 1 Chronicles ch18., a chapter it seems of great military victory for David. 

Yet he writes about feeling rejected by God.

Of God being angry.

Of the land being broken.

And of needing saving. 

There's times when there's been wins and victories the way the world measures it, business wins, promotions, exams passed, and yet at the same time we can feel rejection, like something is broken, that we still need a saviour to make things right.

That we still need rescuing. 

God's mission of restoration is not finished, not finished in the world, in the way things are, in my heart. 

There's a longing that even though we know that Jesus has won it all, it's not complete, it's finished, yet not finished, and some days we just want what David wanted in this song:

"Save with your right hand, and answer me, 

so that those you love may be rescued."

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