September 13, 2025, Psalm 44:1-26
September 13, 2025, Psalm 44:1-26
44 O
God, we have heard with our ears,
our
fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
in the
days of old:
2 you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them
you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them
you set free;
3 for not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did
their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and the
light of your face,
for you
delighted in them.
4 You are
my King, O God;
ordain
salvation for Jacob!
5 Through you we push down our foes;
through
your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
6 For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can
my sword save me.
7 But you have saved us from our foes
and
have put to shame those who hate us.
8 In God we have boasted continually,
and we
will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
9 But you
have rejected us and disgraced us
and have
not gone out with our armies.
10 You have made us turn back from the foe,
and
those who hate us have gotten spoil.
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and
have scattered us among the nations.
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding
no high price for them.
13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the
derision and scorn of those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
a
laughingstock among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame
has covered my face
16 at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
at the
sight of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this
has come upon us,
though
we have not forgotten you,
and we
have not been false to your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
nor have
our steps departed from your way;
19 yet you have broken us in the place of jackals
and
covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread
out our hands to a foreign god,
21 would not God discover this?
For he
knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are
regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 Awake!
Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
Rouse
yourself! Do not reject us forever!
24 Why do you hide your face?
Why do
you forget our affliction and oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our
belly clings to the ground.
26 Rise up; come to our help!
Redeem
us for the sake of your steadfast love!
These verses are so
interesting, yet so typical of us as people.
God, we have tried…why are you forsaking us? How often we forget all God has done for us
and how often we have not worshiped Him as we should. There really hasn’t ever been a time that He
was worshiped as He deserves. We go on
with our day to day lives and call to Him when we need something. I can’t imagine how it hurts Him to see us in
our selfish ways.
How can you praise God in
a new way today?
Maybe spend the time in
your car praying and worshiping Him. He
deserves our very best.
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