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🗓️ 26 April 2022
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.3 | In the first half of Psalm 73, the psalmist Asaph bemoans the prosperity of the wicked. |
0:18.9 | He's watching their lives and he sees them flourishing. |
0:22.0 | As I was reading this, I wondered about Asaph's life as he was putting pen to scroll. |
0:27.0 | Is he thriving too or is he struggling? |
0:30.3 | Is he comparing himself to the wicked? |
0:32.4 | Restraided that they're getting all the things he thinks he deserves? |
0:35.8 | Is this jealousy? |
0:37.4 | Or is it a desire for justice? |
0:39.5 | What's happening in his heart? |
0:41.5 | Asaph does some digging in his heart and his perspective shifts as soon as he goes to |
0:46.1 | worship God. |
0:47.1 | That's when Asaph remembers what has eternal value. |
0:50.4 | An earthly prosperity isn't on that list. |
0:53.6 | He remembers that nearness to God is what truly feeds his soul. |
0:57.7 | Asaph had to take his eyes off others and possibly off himself as well before his heart |
1:02.5 | could shift. |
1:04.0 | He confessed to God that before his heart changed, he was a bitter man and it shaped the way |
1:07.6 | he viewed God. |
1:09.4 | In verses 21 through 22, he says, when my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, |
1:15.3 | I was brutish and ignorant. |
1:17.1 | I was like a beast toward you. |
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