Psalm 105

Summary: So often, as God’s people, we need the perspective that only hindsight can give. Events in our lives that didn’t go at all the way we would have chosen, in hindsight, turn out to be profound evidences of the goodness and wisdom of God. That’s the role of Psalm 105 in the lift of God’s people—not so much to teach history as to reflect on a history we already know in order to increase our trust in the goodness and wisdom of God. Thanksgiving can be difficult when our present circumstances are not what we want or expect, but the recollection of God’s goodness in the past can help build our confidence that what we don’t now understand is yet cause for thanksgiving.