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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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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 Psalmist Aesaf bemoans 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 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? |
0:41.0 | Aesaff 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 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 heart |
1:05.6 | changed he was a bitter man and it shaped the way he viewed God. In verses 21 through 22, |
1:10.9 | he says, When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, |
1:15.0 | I was brutish and ignorant. |
1:17.0 | I was like a beast toward you. |
1:19.0 | In Hebrews, the phrase, |
1:21.0 | when I was pricked in heart actually says something more along the |
1:24.5 | lines of I felt stabbed in my kidneys it's less poetic and more graphic but you can |
1:29.8 | probably relate I've certainly felt stabbed in my kidneys before. |
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