Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is part four of a four part series we've been doing through the book of Psalms

learning how to adopt the language of these ancient poems and prayers as teaching us how to pray.

And we've been exploring different Psalms that express very different emotional postures towards God.

Pain, fear, confession and in this teaching we're going to explore Psalm 73 which is a prayer where the poet is expressing

a crisis of doubt, a crisis of faith.

When he looks at the world he doesn't see a world that his faith can always make sense of.

In fact, just the opposite, it seems like many of the things this poet believes about God are contradicted by what he sees going on around him.

And so for me the most profound learning here was that this poet doesn't work through his doubt by suppressing it.

Rather he gives full voice to his doubt before God.

And the irony, the beauty of this poem is that somehow this poet's words of doubt that are addressed to God now in the book of Psalms become God's word for us who are people who also doubt.

It's very profound. I've had a really important and ongoing wrestling match with doubts about God's existence.

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