Meditating on Mission

One of the things that endears me to the Psalms is the deep meditation and reflection of who God is what He has done by the Psalmists. It's remembering and reinforcing God's mission. Not only do many of them look back on the history of what God has done, but often times asks direct and very powerful rhetorical questions like in Psalm 77 that describe the anguish that all of us feel in our hearts at one time or another.

Questions like will the Lord reject forever? (v. 7) or has God forgotten to be merciful? (v. 9) There are seasons in our lives when many of us emotional feel as if the Lord has abandon us though Scripture and our head knowledge knows otherwise. The Psalms, and Psalm 77 is just one example, are a wonderful place to wrestle with God and then ultimately to receive mercy in our time of need during those seasons of life when we feel a bit lost and uncertain. Not only do they comfort us, but they help us regain much needed perspective that God is on a mission and nothing, not even our doubts, will stop Him.