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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 77

  Psalm 77 I have heard it said that all sin is insanity. And I think that Asaph illustrates that well here in the jumble of discouraging questions and statements he first poses in Psalm 77 and maybe best in verse 8. “Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?” Psalm 77:8 When we are struggling to trust God, everything becomes upside down. So we say things that don’t make sense. We say something that is unfailing has failed. We say that unfailing love could be gone forever and permanently failed. So which is it? Which is true: the permanent failure of God’s love or the unfailing nature of God’s love? And so are all the fears, concerns and complaints of Asaph in the first 12 verses of Psalm 77. I invite you to find the other blatant inconsistencies of our fears and complaints to God expressed by Asaph in Psalm 77 or in our own thinking and prayers. I’m not a psychologist and I don’t know all the proper terminology for mental health problems, but I have...