In Psalms eighty nine Ethan the Psalmist said of Jehovah God, “You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle. You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.”, and in chapter eighty nine and verse forty-six of Psalms Ethan asked Jehovah God, “How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself for ever?” where we read,
How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
The verse begins, “How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever?” Ethan began with the words, “How long, LORD?” or “unto and even till what length of time, Jehovah who is the existing one and the proper name for the One True God” “will you hide yourself” which means “shall you, Jehovah God, conceal, keep secret and be absent your own self” “for ever” or “unto long duration, futurity, everlasting, perpetually and unto continual existence”. Ethan asked Jehovah God for what length of time He was going to conceal Himself, and He wondered if it would be perpetually and everlasting.
The verse goes on to say, “shall your wrath burn like fire?” Ethan continued with the words, “shall your wrath” or “will your, Jehovah God's, heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation and fever” “burn like fire” which means “consume, kindle, remove and destroy in a similar manner and likeness to flaming fiery fire”? Ethan asked Jehovah God whether He would allow His hot displeasure and anger to consume and destroy like flaming fiery fire.
When we meditate upon the words in this verse, we see how Ethan wondered what length of time Jehovah God would make Himself concealed and secret, and He questioned the same for God's hot displeasure like unto flaming fiery fire. Ethan felt like God abandoned David and was not revealing Himself to him any longer. He also thought God was extremely angry with David, and he likened it to a burning fiery ember. God loved David, and He loves us. Sometimes because of our circumstances and situations, we may feel like God is no where to be found and that He is extremely angry with us. God's nature is to love, forgive, rescue and save, and that is why He sent His Son Jesus into the world to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind. When we yield our lives to Him as our personal “Savior and Lord”, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and be with us even when we cannot see Him and it feels like He is as angry as a flaming burning fire.
Next time Ethan the Psalmist asks to Jehovah God, “remember how short my time is”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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