14. Dispelling

Podcast #14 is about dispelling the lie that God is the tyrant or the hard taskmaster. I find it interesting to read through the Psalms and to see the light and shade between the struggle and continually professing that He is good. So often we talk about the struggle and already have the "but You are good" line ready to spit out to God. Maybe this in response to the structure/form of the Psalms. Maybe its out of fear that we would be so bold to complain to God, and thus we need to cover it up quickly with praise. Either way, I do not think that He wants us to move away from owning the struggle that we go through, and I do not think that He wants us to apologise that we have the struggle in the first place by shifting it straight to praise synthetically. I would like to think that the greatest lesson we can learn from David and the other Psalmists is that we can come boldly and honestly to our Father with our troubles, doubts and despair, and we can then, through relationship with the Holy Spirit, transition into praise as He guides us into truth through His Word and His promptings.