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🗓️ 26 April 2023
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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 bimmons the prosperity of the wicked. |
0:18.8 | 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, frustrated that they're getting all the things he thinks |
0:34.2 | he deserves? |
0:35.7 | Is this jealousy 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 worship |
0:46.4 | God. |
0:47.4 | That's when Asaph remembers what has eternal value and earthly prosperity isn't on that |
0:52.3 | list. |
0:53.3 | He remembers that nearness to God is what truly feeds his soul. |
0:57.6 | Asaph had to take his eyes off others and possibly off himself as well before his heart could |
1:02.6 | shift. |
1:03.9 | 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. |
1:09.3 | In verses 21 to 22, he says, when my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, |
1:15.2 | I was brutish and ignorant. |
1:17.0 | I was like a beast toward you. |
1:19.9 | When he bruised the phrase when I was pricked in heart, actually says something more along |
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