Peter Roselle: Let God’s Glory Reset Your Distorted Perspective (Psalm 73:16-17)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-02-02

Peter Roselle: Let God’s Glory Reset Your Distorted Perspective (Psalm 73:16-17)
For all those dealing with confusion and fatigue brought about by ten months of COVID-19 lockdown Psalm 73:16-17 says, “When I tried to understand it all, I just couldn’t. It was too puzzling—too much of a riddle to me…But then one day… I was brought into the sanctuaries of God, and in the light of glory, my distorted perspective vanished. Then I understood that the destiny of the wicked was near!”

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I want to just take a few select verses from Psalm 73. It addresses some of the practical issues that we face. We have emotions and feelings. We have never lived in a society where there was so much available information. But we would agree that not all of the information is reliable.

We need to pray and ask the Lord, "Is this legit? Should I be spending my time on this?" Because you can get so hooked on something, you'll end up spending more time reading about the politics than you are the Bible. Politics will always be changing, but God’s Word never changes. The more time you spend in God’s Word, the more you'll know how to apply it to what we're all dealing with every day in the culture. 

I'm not saying politics is not important. We've been talking about Lance Wallnau for 20 years since we started the church. He's been saying that churches need to activate the saints to take over the seven mountains of culture. It must have landed on a lot of deaf ears because his teaching wasn't really implemented the way it could have been. 

So what have we learned? We need to get involved. You can get on a local school board, you can run for office, you could say, "I want to implement the Biblical principles which are all grounded in truth.” I have to say, if you're not willing to do that, then support somebody who is, who's a Christian. If you're not willing to do either one of those then you don't really have much of a right to complain!

Psalm 73 (TPT)
1 God is really good to Israel and to all those with pure hearts. But I nearly missed seeing it for myself.
2 …I narrowly missed losing it all.
3 I was stumbling over what I saw with the wicked.
6 Cruelty and violence is part of their lifestyle.
8 They even scoff at God! They are 
nothing but bullies threatening God’s people.
13 Have I been foolish to play by the rules and keep my life pure?
16 When I tried to understand it all, I just couldn’t. It was too puzzling—too much of a riddle to me…
17 But then one day… I was brought into the sanctuaries of God, and in the light of glory, my distorted perspective vanished. Then I understood that the destiny of the wicked was near!
21 When I saw all of this, what turmoil filled my heart, piercing my opinions with your truth.

Verse 3 says, "I was stumbling over what I saw with the wicked." That is a word for right now. Be careful that you're not stumbling over what you see with the wicked - based on your definition of the wicked. The psalmist even questions whether it pays to continue serving the Lord. He says, "Have I been foolish to play by the rules and keep my life pure?" That is the devil planting that seed of doubt. "It doesn't pay to serve God. Look what happened, you prayed, you prayed and nothing happened. You didn't see the result you wanted so don't bother." 

Verse 16 says, "When I tried to understand it all, I just couldn't, it was too puzzling, too much of a riddle to me." Anybody feeling like that here? I would really like this to be our prayer together. If you are feeling this way, just stand. If you are feeling like you are in this swirl of confusion about everything that's going on right now, there's nothing to be ashamed of, you're not admitting any kind of weakness, you're just being honest. 

Lord, we just thank you for those that are standing right now. I really understand how confusing the whole thing has been for me, for sure, and we say we know that's not your will and we ask you for the strength right now to come into our hearts. That song we sing, "Even though I'm in the storm, the storm is not in me." 

We speak peace to the storms of confusion and we say life, Godliness and the peace of God to rule and reign as the governor of your soul, and just like this man in verse 16, he said, "When I tried to understand, I just couldn't. It was too puzzling, too much of a riddle to me," but look what it says next. "But then one day I was brought into the sanctuaries of God and in the light of glory, my distorted perspective vanished."