I will use the new Legacy Standard Bible for this short series. This psalm is sometimes combined with Psalm 9. It focuses on the justice of God when life is hard.
1) The imagined indifference of Yahweh—10:1 2) The troubling dominance of the arrogant atheist—10:2-11 3) The prayerful reassurance of the righteous—10:12-15 4) The eternal rule of God—10:16 5) Resolution to the initial concerns—10:17-18 6) Things I need to remember: a) Dale Ralph Davis recounts the story of novelist Lloyd C. Douglas He lived upstairs in a boarding house. Downstairs on the first floor lived an elderly, now infirm, retired music teacher. According to Douglas, they had a morning ritual. Douglas would come down the stairs, open the old man's door, and ask, 'Well, what's the good news?' The elderly gent would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of his wheelchair, and say: 'That's middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat, the piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C!' And God's ravaged but believing saints know that Yahweh's kingship is a far more stubborn datum than middle C. b) Remember 1 Pet. 4:19.
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By God's amazing grace alone, Phil was drawn to salvation in Jesus Christ as a college freshman. He began his pastoral ministry as an assistant pastor (working specifically with youth and music) in 1983 while in seminary. He became the senior pastor here at Calvary in December...