Wrestling with “Why?”

       Psalms 74 and 75 have been placed consecutively in the Hebrew song book because the haunting questions of the former are answered in the latter.  In Psalm 74, Asaph is vigorously wrestling with the question of “Why?”— “O God, why have You cast us off…

Peaks and Valleys

       A good writer writes about what he knows.  In light of this maxim, the content of Psalm 74 suggests that Asaph lived through some very dark and difficult days of defeat—days haunted by the questions of “Why?” (vv. 1, 11) and “How long?”…