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🗓️ 25 April 2020
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | In the first half of Psalm 73, the Psalm's Aesaf bemoans the prosperity of the wicked. |
0:18.8 | He's watching their lives and he sees them flourishing. |
0:21.9 | As I was reading this, I wondered about Aesaf's life as he was |
0:25.0 | putting pen to scroll. Is he thriving too or is he struggling? Is he comparing himself |
0:31.3 | to the wicked? Frustrated that they're getting all the things he thinks he deserves? |
0:35.0 | Is this jealousy? Or is it a desire for justice? What's happening in his heart? |
0:40.0 | Aesaf does some digging in his heart and his perspective shifts as soon as he goes to |
0:46.0 | worship God. |
0:47.0 | That's when Aesaff remembers what has eternal value. |
0:50.4 | An earthly prosperity isn't on that list. |
0:53.0 | He remembers that nearness to God is what truly feeds his soul. |
0:57.0 | Aesaf had to take his eyes off others and possibly off himself as well, |
1:01.0 | before his heart could shift. He confessed to God that before his |
1:05.4 | heart changed he was a bitter man and it shaped the way he viewed God. In verses 21 through |
1:10.2 | 22 he says, when my soul was embittered when I was pricked in heart I was |
1:15.4 | brutish and ignorant I was like a beast toward you in Hebrews the phrase when I was |
1:21.6 | pricked in heart, |
1:23.0 | actually says something more along the lines of, |
1:25.5 | I felt stabbed in my kidneys. |
1:27.7 | It's less poetic and more graphic, |
1:29.4 | but you can probably relate. |
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