"In God we make our boast all day long and we will praise Your name forever. Selah
But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies." vv.8-9
Read chapter 44
Up and down with emotions. In the first eight verses the psalmist is praising God for all His wonderful works He did with this forefathers, how present and loving He was to them. Then the second part is sorrowful of how God's rejected them. The word Selah is right at this division and is a connecting word between the two parts. Selah means to pause and think about what was said or sung. Contrasting wonderful stories with the sad circumstances of the present in this transition. I wonder if in the musical instruments of when this song was played it went from the very highest key to the very lowest key between verses eight and nine. God was who they were boasting in all day long but when things got rough did they continue to still do this? Maybe this song was a reminder of that, that in God we make our boast all day long and praise His name forever no matter what the circumstances. He's not just a god that we like when things are good and hate when things are bad. They seem to have lost the favor of God and knew to expect what would be upon them.
Take some Selah right now on your life.
No comments:
Post a Comment