Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 78-81.

All four psalms today discuss God’s anger with His people when they rebel against Him.  In the first of today’s psalms the psalmist writes about how time and again the generation which God brought out of Egypt repeatedly saw God’s power displayed.  Yet, again and again they rebelled against Him.  In the next two psalms he writes about God’s people crying out to God for deliverance.  Over the last few years as I have read the Old Testament prophets I have felt like their prophecies of God’s coming judgement applied to us today.  Our society’s have sinned in terrible ways and will soon reap what they have sown.  In the same way, the psalmist writes of the Israelites reaping what they had sown.  Today, many of God’s people are echoing the psalmist’s cry, as they should:

Restore us, God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.

Unfortunately, too many of us are failing to follow the guidance God gave us through the psalmist in the next psalm:

If my people would only listen to me,
if only they would only follow my ways,
how quickly I would subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes!

I am convinced that if we, God’s people, would listen to Him more closely, and follow His ways, rather than seeking a politician to save us, or trying to get the “right” laws enacted, we would see a transformation of ourselves, and of our nation.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.