"will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?" God loves to revive His people- He does that for His own glory. He WANTS to restore us bc then we can praise and worship Him again, like we were meant to. my study bible says that this psalm may have been written during a drought. a time of distress.
"You showed favor to your land, O Lord; you restored the fortunes of Jacob...the Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest"
the psalmist remembers God as One who he has journeyed with. they share memories of the past together. he remembers what God has done for him in the past and what they experienced together throughout the years. he acknowledges God as the One who "restored" the land during the israelites' exile. that was time when the israelites were suffering from hopelessness while Jerusalem was in ruins. but God promised to restore the land and HE DID! it was hard to believe at the time of its ruin that Jerusalem would EVER be rebuilt. but they saw with their own eyes how God did rebuild the city again. God is testing that SAME faith again... asking the Israelites to trust again that God will restore the land and keep His promise in providing what is good for them.. even in the midst of hopelessness, do i believe that God will provide what is good for me? can i remember His faithfulness in the past, like this psalmist, and let that faith be strengthened to help me approach this new struggle? my struggle now is... having faith that God will provide what i need to make the next step of my future: grad school/teaching. God will you really provide what i need to get me into grad school? bc right now i doubt that a lot - especially after my gre. can i trust that God will provide? this is the same "area" that i always struggle with and i feel like God LOVES to test me in this area over and over.
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