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Psalm 77

English Standard Version (ESV)

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)Jeduthun. A Psalm of^(B)Asaph.

77 I ^(C)cry aloud to God,
    aloud to God, and he will hear me.
^2 (D)In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
    in ^(E)the night my ^(F)hand is stretched out without wearying;
    my soul ^(G)refuses to be comforted.
³ When I remember God, I ^(H)moan;
    when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
    I am so ^(I)troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider ^(J)the days of old,
    the years long ago.
⁶ I said,^[a] “Let me remember my ^(K)song in the night;
    let me ^(L)meditate in my heart.”
    Then my spirit made a diligent search:
⁷ “Will the Lord ^(M)spurn forever,
    and never again ^(N)be favorable?
⁸ Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his ^(O)promises at an end for all time?
^9 (P)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    ^(Q)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰ Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
    to the years of the ^(R)right hand of the Most High.”^[b]

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
    yes, I will ^(S)remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will ponder all your ^(T)work,
    and meditate on your ^(U)mighty deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is ^(V)holy.
    ^(W)What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who ^(X)works wonders;
    you have ^(Y)made known your might among the peoples.
¹⁵ You ^(Z)with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ When ^(AA)the waters saw you, O God,
    when the waters saw you, they were afraid;
    indeed, the deep trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
    the skies ^(AB)gave forth thunder;
    your ^(AC)arrows flashed on every side.
^18 (AD)The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    ^(AE)your lightnings lighted up the world;
    the earth ^(AF)trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your ^(AG)way was through the sea,
    your path through the great waters;
    yet your footprints ^(AH)were unseen.^[c]
20 You ^(AI)led your people like a flock
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+77&version=ESV

Why does it seem that when trouble comes our way we blame God?  Why do we think God has left us when things don’t go our way?  Why is it that we seek Him but don’t feel His presence?  Maybe it is because we are, like the old song goes, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”.  We look at our current circumstances and measure the love of God off of that.  We decide that He only loves us if He makes us happy, healthy, and content but we forget that God demonstrated His love for us that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).  We forget the passage found in Romans 8:35-39, ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written,^(A)“For your sake ^(B)we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than ^(C)conquerors through ^(D)him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A35-39&version=ESV)

There is an old hymn that I used to sing as a child, that goes like this, “Count your blessings name them one by one, count your blessings see what God has done, Count your blessing, name them one by one, count your many blessings see what God has done.”  We need to count your blessings, when times are tough and then we will see that God is still there like He has always been.  It isn’t God that moves, it is us.  We tend to think when things are great that we have accomplished it on our own and when times are bad we think God has failed us or left us.  When all along He is there saying, Come to me, all who labor and are ^(C)heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  (Matthew 11:28) (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11:28&version=ESV)

Seek Him and know that He is God remember the good He has done for you, run back to Him if you need to.

Seeking Him with all my heart,

Sheila