Sunday Psalms;

Psalms 14:1, 7 NLT

[1] Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God."

... 

[7] Who will come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel? 

When the Lord restores his people, Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice.

Psalms 14:1, 7 NLT

This is a bleak psalm/song. 

There's days, maybe weeks, months, when our world is bleak. 

If that has been or is your experience, then maybe this psalm/song while written 3000 years ago in a different culture and language tells us we're not alone in how we feel or experience life.

David starts by it seems reminding himself of Truth, that even when God is silent, seems distant, when the world is bleak, don't take from that that there is no God. 

And then right at the end, the strand of hope, the redemptive strand we're looking for;

"When the Lord restores his people..."

Restoration will arrive.

We get the benefit of reading this after the first Easter, knowing that Jesus death is the way of restoration, and in His restoration/ressurection lies our hope too.

"When the Lord restores his people..." has happened and will happen.

And all that is bleak will become unbleak.

#psalms 

#songs 

#redemptivestrands #hopeishere 

#Easter

#bleakwillbecomeunbleak