The Bible Study Podcast, episode 384. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 44.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. You did not miss an episode. We skipped

over Psalm 43. If you're interested, you can go back and read that, but it's a very familiar theme.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. It's only about five verses long,

so I'll let you go back and read that one on your own. But Psalm 44 caught my eye, and it

starts like this. We have heard it with our ears, O God. Our ancestors have told us what you did

in their days, in days long ago. With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors.

You crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.

It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory.

It was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.

This particular psalm, and this is a psalm again by the sons of Cora, starts with praise.

And when I say praise, it's talking about the things that God has done.

It's looking back at what God has done in the life of his people, his people Israel, his people Judah at this time.

And one of the reasons that's good for us to do is that

is one of the ways that we build faith. As we look back and see how God has been faithful and see

the situations that we got through and see the situations where God was acting. And I think of that

today, and one of the reasons this Psalm caught my eye

and not the other one, Psalm 43, is that today is my birthday. And so it's one of those days we tend to be

looking back anyway and looking forward and making plans. And it's a good opportunity for us

on days like this, or New Year's that's coming up, or holidays or

anniversaries, to look back and to say, where has God been acting in my life? And what are the

things that I could bring up as the psalmist does here and praise God for how he acted in that

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