In Psalm 77 v 19, we read,'Your way was in the sea ,Your path in the great water, and your footsteps were not known'. The psalmist writes of needing God's help,he expresses deep concerns ,that God appears not to be responding to his situation,it also appears that God is never going to help.Verses 7-9 are questions he is asking in response to God's not acting to help him.Many of us can identify with him,when we are up against it , and we are filled with thoughts of God not caring,being angry with us. In verse 10 we have him expressing his weakness, that was happening was overpowering him.His mood changes and he begins to appeal to God in relation to His great deliverances in the past, His power,and miraculous deeds, and to Gods character. Verse 15, he highlights the rescue of God's people out of Egypt. Verse 19 reads'Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters,and Thy footsteps are not known'.It is Barnes who comments on these words,'Thy footsteps are not known', as the mystery of Gods Providence,that His ways are often past finding out.yes He takes comfort in God dealings in the past with His people,but remembering the importance of trusting Him when it appears there is a God silence.And as one writer puts it ,'when we cannot trace God we can certainly trust Him.'
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