S3:162 Psalm 77

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible for God's steadfast love to cease? And is it okay for us to ask that? Today, Emma Dotter is joined by Watermark staff member Lauren Atkinson to talk about Psalm 77 and how we wrestle with doubt that comes from suffering. When Asaph is in suffering, he is honest with God and calls himself to remember God's faithfulness in his life. Jesus Christ has shown us that His love for us could never cease.

Additional Scripture Referenced:
Psalm 73 – "why do the wicked prosper?"
Isaiah 9:6 – the Messiah is "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God"
Romans 8:39 – "nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus"
John 17:23 – "you loved them even as you loved me"

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0:00.0	All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests.
0:04.5	You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.
0:10.0	Thanks for joining.
0:11.1	Today, we are reading Psalm 77, and I am back in the podcast studio with Lauren Atkinson.
0:16.7	Hey, guys.
0:17.7	Lauren, good to have you back.
0:19.2	Last time you were here, we talked about good Bible reading principles, and I know today you've got another one to kind of help set us up with context for today's psalm. So why don't you hit us with it?
0:29.0	Yeah. So one of the things we've been talking about a lot lately is the importance of looking at the whole context of the passage that we're in. That helps us to better understand what's going on,
0:38.5	who wrote the passage, where they wrote it, what was going on when they wrote it, who the audience is.
0:43.9	And essentially, all of those things give us more clarity so we can understand and apply better
0:49.0	what we're reading. Today, we're going to be in Psalm 77, and we're going to specifically be
0:53.7	looking at the importance of
0:55.0	literary context. And so that means we need to look at how this verse or chapter fits into the whole
1:01.4	book of the Bible and then a whole genre or the whole Old Testament or New Testament and then
1:06.4	in the grand whole story of the Bible. And so specifically with Psalm 77, we're going to be looking at
1:13.0	the chapters before it. Last week we were reading Psalm 73, and we saw that one of the psalmist is a man
1:18.8	named Asaph. And so he wrote Psalm 50 and then Psalm 73 through 83. And we talked about how Asif was a
1:26.3	righteous man. He was the chief musician in the time of King David and Solomon. And we talked about how Asaph was a righteous man. He was the chief musician in the time of
1:29.5	King David and Solomon, and he served before the Ark of the Covenant in Jerusalem. But also in Psalm 73
1:35.8	and 77, we're going to see Asaph expressing deep distress as he's seeking God and asking God
1:42.1	questions. And so as you read Psalm 77, if you're like me,
1:45.9	you're thinking, gosh, these words seem like they are coming, not just from a place of trying
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