The third section of Psalms, known as the Leviticus Psalms, remind us that the God who redeemed us is still with us.

In fact, he is promised to never leave us or forsake us., we join Scott Pauli in opening God's roadmap for life.

Find your place in the Word of God, in the Psalms, and let's discover what God has for us along the way.

What do you do when everything, I mean everything is gone but God?

May I say to you, when everything is gone but God, you still have God.

It was Vance Havner that said when Jesus is all you have, you find out he's all you need.

Someone else suggested that when the bottom falls out and you get to the bottom,

you find out that the foundation is still there.

Psalm 79 is one of those Psalms that reminds us there are moments in a nation,

in a family, in a life, when it seems like everything is gone.

Everything you hope for, everything you work for, everything you were used to, everything is gone.

Aren't you glad at those moments that God is not gone?

Psalm 79 in many ways is a parallel to Psalm 74, and if you compare the two, you see lots of the same wording. And these

Psalms connect to the life of Jeremiah. In fact, historically, many people believe that Psalm 79

could be inserted in Jeremiah chapter 39, where the final captivity of Judah took place. And that

makes sense. Listen to the words of Psalm 79 as Asaph writes,

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance. Thy holy temple have they defiled. They have laid

Jerusalem on heaps. I'll remind you that unholy people never consider holy what you consider holy. So you have a

certain reverence for God and respect for spiritual things and a certain feeling of reverence for the

Lord and people who are blasphemers. They don't have that. They were trampling down the

heritage of Israel. And then in verse two, it says, the dead bodies of thy servants have they given

to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints into the beast of the earth.

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