I just realized I skipped a whole bunch of the psalms! I jumped from 59 to 96. I don’t know why I did that. I was so stoked to be at 100! But time if covid has taught us anything it’s that time is relative!
The beauty of this is that fortunately I’m fairly convinced no one reads this so it may be years until someone realizes my error
So read this first: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+60&version=NIV
This definitely seems like where we are now:
You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us;
you have been angry—now restore us!
2 You have shaken the land and torn it open;
mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
3 You have shown your people desperate times;
you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner
to be unfurled against the bow.
I’m saddened with my country right now. Saddened by division. Saddened that we’ve politicized a disease. Fortunately God has made this disease not as bad as we would have thought. Yet this has only made us more angry. I don’t see anyone coming together to lead us in a direction right now. What I wouldn’t give for a leader in this situation of covid and unrest. Just say here’s a plan and how we’ll get out of this. I’m not good with in between states. I want God to lead us. Or at least someone to act like an authority and say “Hey- here’s what we’re going to do” It would be amazing! Yet half the country would throw stones.
A disease isn’t political. A disease is simply bad. Address it as such and don’t say that if someone has a different opinion on it that they’re a nazi or a coward. Misinformed- fair enough- but I just don’t see how we’ve gotten to this point as a country.
Anyway this is me whining 4 months into this crazy thing. I’m lamenting how good we had it and probably over dramatizing that life will never be normal again. I miss concerts. I miss meeting with people and friends for fun and not work. It’s such an odd world. A good time for prayer which though I’ve been blogging through prayers I likely haven’t done enough. If you’re reading this now. I know you’re going through this crud too. Know you’re 100% not alone. We all feel it. We have a God who knows it too. He mourns in a similar way. He’s our leader and we haven’t been following him since the Garden of Eden. But He assures us that this will pass. He coming soon to right wrongs and make things right.
Pray to Him today. He’s the one with hope. Not politicians. Not our plans, not anything else of this earth.
Marking It Up 