Psalm Psnippets 13: God & Time

I think this is a repeat – I wrote about time (& God) in Psnippet 9. Luckily, I didn’t exhaust the topic and we are back at it in Psalm 13.

God’s time is incomparable to ours but in Jesus, God experiences the fullness of humanity, including how time feels.

In the first two verses of this Psalm, we have five questions: all asking how long until God intervenes in this situation and rescues David.

Then we move swiftly into everyone’s favorite topic: the fear of finitude. David demands that God rescue quickly – otherwise David will face the ‘sleep of death’ and his enemies will triumph over him.

The Psalm turns to the history of God’s faithfulness to him. In the past, God has “dealt bountifully” with David – surely he will do so again.

We always remain completely within a human idiom. God doesn’t measure time like…