Psalm 74:10

Psalm 74:10

God has a plan

Well, we could consider our writer to be somewhat impatient! “How long will the enemy mock you, God? Will the foe revile your name forever?”  The captivity in Babylon was spread over a period of 70 years, that’s up to three generations of people. Little children were now asking their grandparents what life had been like in the Promised Land! So, maybe it wasn’t impatience, maybe there was good reason to believe that the captivity was never going to end.

We could read this verse another way and suppose it to be a kind of goad. You know, the moment when you slyly suggest to your friend in the playground that the mockery of the school bully has gone on long enough.  In other words, “Are you going to do something about it?” Is God going to stand up to those sneering Babylonians and if so, when?

Or, this verse could simply be a tired and woeful admission that we can’t put up with it anymore. “You are God. We know You are patient and that You always have a plan. When are You going to put an end to their jeers?” 

It does us good sometimes to catch up with those who are in the middle of a crisis and then watch the way that the Lord works out His deliverance and unfolds His plans. With hindsight, we can see what was going to happen. At the time no one would have believed the scheme God had up His sleeve. Perhaps, the best lesson from all of this is to remember that He always has a plan, and it will always be enacted when His timing is right. Hallelujah!

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