Quest for Truth 158 Perspective

Quest for Truth – HPN

Our opening gets slightly interrupted, and the Retrobots join us for a few moments.

Meet the Hosts

Learn the latest with Nathan, Chris deals with a broken elevator, and Keith tells about penguin burials.

We turn to a moment of randomness to discuss when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But is it so easy without water and sugar?

Turning to our friends at the Babylon Bee, we learn about 5 top reasons to leave your church. Remember, its all in fun, and satyre.

Main Topic

Why would God command the killing of babies?

Let’s examine where this question comes from, and the importance of reading the whole psalm. Not simply taking the verse out of context. never read just one bible verse alone.

Psalms 137

The question: How can God teach about killing young children? Particularly in the words we find in Psalm 137:9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

We look at the psalm in context, and the horrible situation the Israelites found themselves in,

How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

In the opening verses, we find the survivors of the nation being taken into slavery in a foreign land, and being taunted, and forced to sing their joyful songs of their religion, despite all the horrible things done to them.

Remembering what happened

Though they knew they had disobeyed as a nation, they knew the greater injustice would be if they forgot where they came from. It would be no good to make light of that heritage.

Return justice for mistreatment

The Babylonians had taken them as slaves, their sister nation, Edom, had laughed and called for the destruction of Israelite cities. For all the mistreatment in their downfall, the Israelites were only calling for an equal justice to befall those who did them wrong. How brutal was it? More than the destruction of cities, even the children had been killed. The words of verse 9 is a statement of what happened to their own, and a call to God to make it right.

Maybe the words in Psalms 90 is a good answer to the times when it appears that God is angry, or against us.

From Everlasting to Everlasting

This is a Prayer of Moses, the man of God. He simply states that God is eternal.

Man’s short lifespan

God is in control of our lives, the day of our death, and knows how temporary we all are. Time is counted differently by him, with a thousand years as a day, and as a watch in the night when it passes. People come and go, but God is the same, and has been around for longer than any of us. There are no surprises with him.

Judgment of Man’s works

All our days, all our sins, all our deeds are seen by God, and none hold up to his judgement. Life is short, hard, then we die.

Wisdom and reconciliation to God

Who considers the power of your anger, in other words, does anyone see it from God’s perspective? Do we really see sin the way he sees it? If anything, seek wisdom to be reconciled to him. This involves repentance, and turning from your disobedience, and the attitude that draws God’s wrath. Get back into learning his ways, and showing love. Your own wrath can never overcome his, and when you love him, you can’t outlive the love that God returns to you.

The final hope is that for every hard day, or year, or any deed, that God will grant an equal number of blessings. Also that he establishes the kind of work we ought to be doing. Seek him, and what he’s doing, and go join him there.