as I wait and hope in him - Isaiah 8:17

You'll have to forgive the slightly cheeky title that riffs off yesterday's actual quote from Psalm 105.  What can I say, an opportunity to alliterate can't be passed up.  I was so amazed to read Psalm 106 this morning and see all the similarities to the psalm that comes before. It's basically a retelling of the psalm but with a different lens. A different perspective.  Do you remember how the whole of Psalm 105 was filled with God's actions? He did this, he did that. Well, Psalm 106 flips the whole of Israel's story - rescue from Egypt, wandering in the wilderness - and comments, rather than on God's marvellous works, on Israel's despicable inability to obey .  It's another long one, so I'd invite you to have a read for yourself. Do take the time to marvel at all the parallels between these two psalms.  The guilt piles up; one thing after the next. On the charge of whether God's people have treated their God as they ought, the answer is a r...

But why? Why tell of all His wondrous works? Why not just know them, and be like, 'yep, that was cool'? Because his wondrous works in the past matter now . They speak of his character, his trustworthiness, his power. They speak of the foreverness of his promises. He is a foot-on-the-gas, hands-on-the-wheel God. He is not aloof or uninvolved in this world. In Psalm 105 , the psalmist retells the marvellous account of God's promises to Abraham and his subsequent rescue of his people out of Egypt, that they might serve him. We're told: He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.  He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant that he made with Abraham. I'll let you look up the psalm yourself here  - see to what extent God is the active ingredient?  v16 -  He summoned a famine on the land... v28-41 -  He sent darkness... he spoke and there came swarms of flies... he brought out Israel...

 Hi everyone, This a short post in line with my musings through the psalms. I hope you too might receive the encouragement from God's Word that I have so benefited from this morning, sitting at my kitchen bench with a coffee in hand. ("kitchen counter" if you're English? I think? I don't even know anymore.) Psalm 104 is a magnificent psalm that paints a glorious picture of God's mighty hand in all creation. v5 - he has set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved v10 - you make springs gush forth in the valleys, they flow between the hills; they give drink to every beast of the field. v19 - he made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows it time for setting. The part that caught my attention this morning were verses 27-30. These all look to you, to give them their food in due season. When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when...