What Happens When You Look Up

What Happens When You Look Up

Psalms 102

     Let’s give it credit to David.  It sounds like one of his.  Maybe it made his top forty with stringed harp.  David the front man took the stage and here’s how the song went.

     “Oh woe is me.  I feel like dyin’.  My innerds in me are a fryin’.  Ain’t had no sleep cause muh sin has got me down.  O Lordy, Lordy, You know muh sins have got me down.”

     Twelve bar blues beat heavy in the background.  Harmonica Jane, part of the palace ensemble, picks up the mouth harp and peels a good lick to echo Dave’s groanings.  Piper Man Pete, with his wind on the wood, bends a fair note to lend an eerie tone carrying the melody.

     Wow, another hum drum crowd chorus till we hit verse twelve:

12 “But thou, O Lord, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.”

     “Davey wait!  Where you makin’ Bud?  We had a thing going here.”  The band is lost in momentary head trauma as little David kneels down on stage and looks up to a Big God.  The spotlight turns off Mr. Keys and burns down on the bald of Davie’s head.

     “Woo!  Woo!  Woo!  Me’s be but a crumb in the sea but You’s real big!”  The band struggles to find his beat.  “A livin’ long after my dirt is done.  Yeah!  Livin’ long after my dirt is done!”

       David, now in clairvoyance rends lyrics with epithelial utterance.  His thin covering of faith rides the notes to harmony.  God is now exalted.

     David in all his croaking bellows his behemoth sigh to pierce the sky of time.  Mr. Prophet gains his tongue as the fortified flows to announce God’s hereafter.  As in his writings before, he jumps.  This occurrence, he skips a few millennia.

     Launching off in verse twelve, David writes of a time distant.  When Zion will be rebuilt or upgirded.  Jerusalem be prepared as His glory enters into Her.  Kingdoms shall gather around to honor the true King.  For in that time, the Sovereign has looked down from Heaven to deliver His people ready for the slayer.  God gets involved.  He steps in as the Mighty Deliverer.

18 "This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord."

     David admits he is a seer.  As of counting, he has seen over 3,000 years into the future.  Given he existed about 1000 B.C., and our current is 2024 A.D., the man had a telescopic eye!  The great deliverance of his people has not happened.  David writes specifically of a time of conquest and absolute rule taken up by One who will beat the nations with a rod of iron.

     Did David lose his blues riff to see the coming Messiah?  Can we get a God perspective today if we take our trance off the trash in the gutter and lift it to the horizon?  Sure, there is gunk under every day’s plodded step, but God gives us a bright vision in which to lift our heads.  He truly has not left His children orphans.  He calls us to repose our blues and gaze into His promises. 

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