Restore Me in Your Love
Psalm 44
Today we read a Psalms that takes place sometime during the Babylonian exile. The writer shows their loyalty and hope in God but also show that they are upset about the present situation. As you read this Psalm look for the words of their frustration but also the words of their hope. And after that think about your present situations. Can you complain and compare them to these Israelites? Most likely it can’t compare but we still can look at what God did in the past and know that he is capable to deliver us in the future.
What Paul says
Throughout this chapter we see a couple mentions of sheep being scattered or led away to the slaughter and as he was writing about the present situation as many Jews were scattered throughout the Assyrian Empire and Babylonian Empire but also many died from this invasion and even Jerusalem and the Temple was destroyed. In verse 22 it says, “Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. ”
Paul uses this verse to show how great God’s love is for his children in Romans 8. Romans 8:35-39 says, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor thing to come, nor powers, 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.”
As the Israelites were perplexed in their state of oppression, we know that in our state of oppression and sin, that God loves us. NOTHING can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Even if we were scattered and there is intense trials and tribulations it still can’t separate us. Nor matter the situation we face in this life, we know that God loves us. We are not disconnected to him. If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all (Romans 8:31-32). We are restored in God’s love. It is God’s grace through Christ that we have that true hope.
We see that God did eventually restore Israel as they turned to him and we are only truly restored when we turn to Christ as Lord of our lives. Repent of your sin and turn to Christ.
