WHO IS LIKE YOU, GOD?
Psalm 71
“Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once more.”
It is fascinating to see how realistic the faith of the Psalmist is. He does not look at life and his experiences through rose-tinted lenses. He does not presume that God’s mind is like his own and that God’s will seeks the same goals as his will.
Life will not be smooth-sailing. We will see troubles, many and bitter. Yet the Psalmist believes in God’s faithfulness and no matter how bad and how long, he resolutely seeks shelter in God.
Why? Because he has walked with this God from young and knows him to be unlike any other. God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent (Numbers 23:19 KJV).
“As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.”