Ps. 77: Who is Like God?

Psalm 77:13 "Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God?"

Asaph praises God. He recounts his agony, when God wasn't near or wasn't perceivable. Perceptible? You didn't know if He was there or not. 

Doesn't that seem like the truth. If things aren't going well, the feeling is that God isn't there. That tells me things about our own innate sense of the Almighty. When things aren't good, you feel forsaken. Like something is missing. Like what should be there is there no longer. For Asaph, that was God, and he seemed to become obsessed. He felt like God had failed...his attributes of love, mercy and everpresence seem to have vanished. As though God was the one who was weak? And I have learned that God only does exactly what he intends to do. Is that comforting? I don't know that it's meant to be. Its hard. It's a difficult thing sometimes accepting what God does or doesn't do. 

Asaph's soul would not be satisfied. He mused in his heart. It's all that he thought of, restoring that sense of being one with God.

And then Asaph is like, "Well, what about all the things God has done for his people in the past?" Asaph believes God is an unchanging God, and a God who keeps his promises. Asaph understood that he was part of a nation that was being preserved, in spite of the current hardships. In fact, Israel has undergone a litany of hardships and terrible things in their journey as a nation since God called on Abraham.

It ain't easy living, but Asaph learned to trust in God's word.