River Valley Church SOAP - Part 8নমুনা

Psalms 138 and 139 are more individual expressions of this theme of thanksgiving and deeply rooted trust in a God who is both awe-inspiring and personally intimate. In the middle of this thankful tone, the juxtaposition of harsh, indignant language calling for vindication of wrongs (Psalm 137 and the final stanza of 139) might seem strange, but these expressions of anger are equally as essential for a life of emotional honesty before God. The speaker’s intense, hyperbolic (exaggerated) cries for justice against those who have held them captive and oppressed them give us a model for how to channel and vent the full extent of our anger before God.