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PSALM 85.4-7

Restore us again, God our Savior, and put away your displeasure toward us.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger through all generations?

Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.

 

Sometimes it feels like we're stranded on the side of the road of life. Somehow we've broken down and things aren't going as we'd hoped. In that moment, we may wonder why God isn't showing up as clearly as we'd like him to. Maybe God is unhappy with us or we've done something to drive him away. 

While we may never be able to push God far away from us, we can still feel that separation, and at times like that, when we don't feel his favour, we can call out with the Psalmist for God to revive us again. Psalm 85 s a great prayer for God to return and revive us again - to make us as we once were (a time recalled in the earlier verses of this Psalm). The Psalmist knows of God's unfailing love and his longing to restore his people, so he appeals to God to indeed do that, so that His people will rejoice in the goodness of God!

If you're in a place today of longing for the return of God's favour and joy, join the Psalmist in this prayer - that God would revive you again, so you could rejoice in him - that God would SHOW you his unfailing love, and grant you his salvation.