Today we start worship with Psalm 73.
Like the Torah, Psalms has five internal books. This psalm is the first psalm of the middle book. This verse is, not it’s valley, but rather it’s pinnacle.
The psalmist describes personally almost giving in to the envy of the unrighteousness. He saw them succeeding in life and not receiving their just do. In his envy he was driven to anger.
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When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
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I was brutish and ignorant;
I was like a beast toward you.
But when the Psalmist entered the sanctuary of God he “discerned their end” (Psalm 73:17) and was released from that anger.
Climbing out of that pit, he reaches the pinnacle which is our verse for today:
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you
He sees that one day his own body will fail, but that God will not.
My flesh and my heart may fail
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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