Psalms 78 – 80

Verse 78:7 stands out as a command that we quickly see was ignored:

tell them to put their confidence and hope in God,
And never forget the wondrous things He has done.
    They should obey His commandments always

This is a long Psalm that takes us through all the wonders God showed His people with Moses in Egypt, yet they still drifted. Today God no longer talks to us through powerful miracles like the parting of the Red Sea, but often through more personal ones. God has shown himself before Israel only to have them worshiping a golden calf shortly after, so as we see throughout this Psalm and history, the big stuff doesn’t change a nation it’s the little personal stuff that does over time.

It’s really amazing when you read how rebellious God’s chosen people were and how much grace He showed them along the way. Even when this spilled out to the entire world through the sacrifice of Jesus, the Jews tried to force the legalism of the law onto the Way. It just amazes me how history keeps repeating itself and makes me wonder if another angel will fall after “the end-times”.

Verses 79:12 & 13 shows one of the problems with people:

 ¹² Pay back each of our invaders personally, seven times
    for the shame they heaped on You, O Lord!
¹³ Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
    will pause and give You thanks forever;
    Your praise will be told by our generation to the next.

The ole’ we are in trouble, help us and we will “give You thanks forever” becomes old after millennium. We constantly seem to have conditions on our thanks and our praise of God. We hit a big deal, we get healed, we get a great job, or some other wonderful event we are quick to give God praise, but get stricken with cancer and the praise is gone. We then had conditions over how we will serve God based on our healing.

I started this blog 5 years ago or so and was hoping for riches from donations or an instant book deal. Heck I get over joyed when 2 people look at the posts in a week now. I no longer do this for hopes of money, but rather sharing my reality with God’s word to hopefully help some individual through their struggle with salvation or faith. My faith was conditional then and now I pray I have worked through that, and if not, I pray God will continue to show me how I need to be mentally with Him.

Some say I over intellectualize this stuff and do not follow my heart. They may be right, but at the same time I want to make sure I am not following a false prophet who calls on demons for feelings of salvation in their followers. Kundalini is one thing I see creeping into the church. Many say Jesus has a Kundalini awakening and that was why He was such a great man. See the problem? Kundalini is represented as a serpent who and they represent Jesus as a man, who uses this serpents power. Understand, that their “Jesus” is not God, but rather just a possessed man.

I’ll end with verse 80:3 that is a prayer I pray even when I feel in tune with God:

Bring us back to You, God.
    Turn the light of Your face upon us so that we will be rescued from this sea of darkness.

As we see throughout history from Psalm 78 mankind can drift wildly from God’s will. Bet if you talked to anyone about their drift and it would seem right at the time. The golden calf would have seemed logical especially if a demon had attached itself to the idol to give good feelings. This could get me going on a long subject on how feelings tend to guide us down the path of destruction. I can’t tell you how many marriages have been destroyed because feelings guided the person and not God’s word of fidelity. Again, a long topic, but the key is strive and pray for following God.