This coming Sunday we are looking at Psalm 130 in worship, which is my absolutely favorite Psalm! I’ll try not to say that on Sunday:) For some reason I relate to these types of honest, emotional expressions in God’s word. Specifically, it has always stuck out to me that the Psalmist uses such repetitive poetic phrases:
“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.” Psalm 130:5-6
Though I don’t necessarily want Jesus to return right now in judgment, as Michael mentioned on Sunday, at the same time I do long for His return. It’s another layer to the “now and not yet” I suppose. I relate strongly with the Psalmists words, struggling with my own sin and brokenness as well as what I see and know in the world. I rarely know how to understand it, step into it, or especially to fix it. I long for Jesus to come and do away with the brokenness and sin and fully heal us and His creation. I long for Him to bring us into His kingdom, where, as Andrew Peterson says,
“There’s no more faith, no more hope;
I’ll see your face and Lord, I’ll know.
That only love, only Your love remains.”
Until that day, we wait and hope in His word. We trust the promises. Though we often fail and flounder, they do not, for they are true. Our God is the healer with wounds. The savior who gave himself as the ransom. And just as He first came into the world, at just the right time, He will come again at just the right time. Until then, we wait for Him and hope in His word. More than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning…
Here’s a great song written from this Psalm: https://youtu.be/1aVWBSmghAs