Book of Psalms

All through Old Testament times God’s people waited for a king worthy to reign alongside the Lord on Mount Zion. But who could meet the standard of perfect righteousness? Jesus alone is worthy to take the scroll and reign at God’s right hand.

When a man shuts God out of his thinking he becomes a fool. The psalmist remembers times in the past when God handed the whole human race over to foolishness. And he looks forward to a future when wisdom will triumph.

David felt that his afflictions had gone on and on and he saw no end to them. Yet he found assurance and peace as he cried to the Lord. This psalm is for every believer who finds himself crying “how long?”

The psalmist struggled with the pressures of a broken society. But his worst problem was the demoralising counsel of faithless friends. They told him “flee to the mountains”; he fled to the Rock of Ages.

The psalmist had to live among practical atheists: people who ignored God and oppressed the vulnerable. He found himself crying to God to intervene. So must we.