Covenant Reformed News – April 2013 • Volume XIV, Issue 12
This devotional exposition of Psalm 77:19 explores how God's providential ways, though hidden and incomprehensible to us like footprints erased by the sea, are nonetheless holy and worthy of trust. The author encourages readers to move from spiritual doubt and self-pity to confidence in God's sovereign governance, using Asaph's testimony as a model for faith in God's mysterious but perfect dealings with His people.
God’s Way Is in the Sea (1) In the last two issues of the News, we followed Asaph, in Psalm 77, through his doubts and struggles, through his sleepless nights and comfortless days, until he finally came to his spiritual senses. Verse 10 is his turning point: “And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.” Verse 13 is his great confession: “Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?” No matter what Asaph had...