The Answer to Trauma

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and thrown me away.  Psalm 102:10  NASB

Notice who the actor is in this drama.  It isn’t the psalmist.  He is the passive recipient; God is the actor.  “Your anger,” “You lifted me,” “You threw me away.”  Still a victim of inexplicable divine reprisals, this summary says it all.  “I don’t know what I did wrong.  Everything seemed to be fine—with You and with me.  Now, suddenly, You have turned against me.”

All of this should sound familiar.  Perhaps it is personal, but at the least, it is gospel.  John 9 deals with the same emotional trauma, albeit in the story of another man.  The disciples act like the psalmist.  “What did this man or his parents do to deserve such punishment?”  They assume that because this man’s blindness is the result of punishment, there must be some horrible sin behind it.  The psalmist makes the same assumption.  “My life is thrown away like trash.  What did I do wrong?”  The psalmist searches for some answer—and gets none.  The blind man had no answer either, until Yeshua redirected the gaze from the past to the future.  It isn’t about why this happened.  It’s about what will result from it.  Like the disciples, we want to assign blame.  Like Job, the psalmist pleads innocence.  The answer to the question is not blame but purpose.  “Lord, I don’t know why You are doing this, but You know why and I trust You.  Go ahead.”  Not so easy to say, is it?

excerpt from: https://skipmoen.com/2021/02/gods-rollercoaster/