08/28/2026
Ps 44. In going through the psalms, sometimes it is taking me a day or two to reflect on them before making any kind of comment. I am not a Bible scholar, so some things that I read in the Psalms are challenging to determine the meaning of.  We have to remember that God dealt differently with everyone in the Old Testament because they were under a different covenant. And we also have to remember they did not have the Bible or the word of God at their disposal like we have now. The new covenant that we have in Christ Jesus is so much better and the word that we now have helps us to understand God‘s character in a way that I don’t know that they understood in the Old Testament. So these are things that I try to keep in mind as I read through these passages and I encourage you to remember as well. Just because something is in God‘s word does not mean that it is always specifically describing His character or will on something. Many things in the word are reciting history and customs and how people responded and describing how they felt about what was going on. David was a musician songwriter, which means he was a very sensitive soul. He was describing in these passages how he felt often times and how it seemed to him, not necessarily God‘s actual character or what God was actually doing.  We sometimes may feel the same way David did, but we always need to remember that God is love. His character is love and faithfulness and He is holy! He never leaves us or forsakes us even if we feel like He isn’t answering us! Our feelings are not true gauges of God’s response to us! His thoughts toward us are for good and not for evil! Praise God, He has made a way for us in every situation!
“We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, The deeds You did in their days, In days of old: You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out. For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them. You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob. Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, Nor shall my sword save me. But You have saved us from our enemies, And have put to shame those who hated us. In God we boast all day long, And praise Your name forever. Selah But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies. You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. You have given us up like sheep intended for food, And have scattered us among the nations. You sell Your people for next to nothing, And are not enriched by selling them. You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us. You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me, Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger. All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way; But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground. Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.”
Psalms 44:1-26 NKJV
