Psalm 106
First off, does it seem like verses 1-5 and 47-48 could be read without everything in between to anyone else? I say this partly because in them the Psalmist refers to The Lord and to God and in 6-46 the Psalmist refers to God only in pronouns. This makes me wonder if 6-46 were added in sometime later.
Secondly, I don't know about you but it is not the sins that are told in the body of the Psalm, but rather the recurring theme that Israel sins and then someone stands in front of them in order to spare them from the wrath of God. In my mind this almost makes my point from yesterday's post about God wanting the people to be free, the thing that God requires is for someone to stand up for those who are in the path of punishment. If someone stands for those who have chosen the wrong path God turns the wrath away from them. Think about that for a second, not the wrath part, we spend enough time on that in our lives, rather think about the fact that there must be someone to stand between the wrath and those that the wrath should fall upon. Are you thinking about that?
Now think about the cross, think about the tomb, think about the resurrection, what is all of that if not for someone standing in between the wrath and those deserving of wrath? And what does that tell us that the person standing between the wrath and us is God? That seems to be a God who is specifically concerned with saving the people, concerned with freeing the people, concerned with caring for the people. Now think about the fact that the people is you? Think about the fact that God is concerned with your safety, your freedom, your well being, how does that make you want to react, to live?
+ How do you choose to live in response to a God who stands between us and punishment?
+ How can you stand between punishment and another?
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