In His Sanctuary

Psalm 73

Asaph, the author of the psalm, was expressing his confusion that wicked prospered and are carefree and arrogant. It seems like he has kept himself pure in vain. Sometimes we may be like him, seeing others prosper and doing well, and we wonder why are we still keeping the faith, when God seems like not blessing us. And we may feel frustrated, disturbed and lack of faith...

But in verse 1, Asaph praise God and said that he almost slipped because his focus was turned upon the people and his circumstances. vs1-3. When we turn our focus from God, and look at our circumstances, we often lose focus and start to envy others, start to lose our faith. Like peter... when Jesus called out to him, he looked to Jesus and started walking on water. But once he started looking around him and realised he was on water, he began to sink. Similarly, when we look at our circumstances, we begin to sink into our emotions, failures, negative feelings, lack of faith. We need to look to Jesus, who will keep us going because we can hope and have faith in Him.

Remember God is just, the wicked will not last forever. But we who remains faithful and work for the Lord will be rewarded for eternity. So what to do now? I guess the answer is in verse 27-28. To stay near to the Lord. When asaph came into God's sanctuary, he saw the truth, he realised that God will bless him. We need to come into God's sanctuary, to draw near to Him, so that we can see the truth, so that we will find our security and hope in Him.

In His sanctuary, we dwell in His presence and focus upon Him, so that no matter what life's circumstances are, we can have faith and hope.