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Psalm 107 is
a marvelous psalm for study. Naturally,
it is another psalm of praise, lifting up the deliverance that we feel from the
hand of God. This psalm speaks to His
greatness. But as it speaks to the
greatness of God, it weaves together multiple perspectives.
First, we
can see the wanderers. Whether these are
people who chose to abandon their locale or forced into the wilderness we
cannot know. What we do know is that God
is the God of the wanderer. He hears
their cry and brings them home.
Second, we
see those who sit in darkness. These are
prisoners. These are people who are near
death. These are also people who have
spent time in the past rejecting God’s words.
God is God of these people as well.
He may bend them to humble them, He still gives them an opportunity to
be humbled! He allows them to see the
error of their ways and the circumstance of their affliction. He allows them to rise above it if they will
listen to Him. He is their God as much
as anyone else’s God.
We then hear
about the fools. These are people who
thought they knew better than God. They
made choices that may have made human sense, but weren’t really all that great
in the end. God heals them. He brings them out of the destruction that their
foolishness brought upon them.
There are
others who went out in the world to focus on business and entrepreneurial efforts. As they focused on their pursuits, they also
found themselves in trouble. Those who see
the hand of the Lord at work turn and find salvation. He calms the turbulent world of worry and
risk around us.
God works
miracles. He will come to us in our time
of trouble. He will even save us from
our own trouble if we are willing to be humbled and turn to Him and His
wisdom. God does not demand perfection from
us. God merely desires that we follow
Him and humbly repent when we find ourselves walking away from Him.
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