Dear friends. This is the last episode of season 1. 

The last section verse 45-52 is a characteristic lamentation ending. "How long O Lord?" This is not only a typical lament ending but also reminds me of the Book of Job in which the doctrine of creature climax the ending of the story. Here in Psalm 89, it is similarly the doctrine of the creation of man. All the earth has an essential relationship with the creator God, God the Father of all the earth. This psalm is written when the psalmist finds the conflicts between God's eternal covenant to his people and the falling and humiliation of the Davidic kingdom among the nations. However, the psalmist ended with praising, "Blessed is the Lord forever. Amen and Amen." 

One question was raised before God what is the reason for the vanity of man. Men can not save themselves from death. As all the lamentations in the Book of Psalms tend to have unstated answers between the lines. The answer is also not explicitly stated in Psalm 89. However, the psalmist begins to meditate on the doctrine of the creation of man. Everything good is from the creator-creature relationship with God the Father who blessed us with every blessing from himself, life, meaning, home, kingdom, and almighty providence and faithful sustaining throughout their life.  Men were made to have an eternal, abundant, rich life in the garden with God to eternity. However, the eternal existence with God is threatened with the bondage of sin. 

When men decided to leave God, vanity crept into their life. All men, believers, and unbelievers are subject to vanity since Adam and Eve chose to betrayed God for the king of vanity, Satan. When we lose our relationship with the creator God, we lose everything. God has created men with his image, to reflect his wisdom, righteousness, wisdom and after the fall, all seems to be totally corrupted but the vanity of vanity. 

Since then, the kingdom of eternity and the kingdom of Satan has been in a constant battle until a real king came to crush the head of the serpent and reign the whole created world forever. 

But David isn't this king. That's why the psalmist lamented. 

And David is also the type of the king who is humiliated by the nations at the moment. That's why the psalmist lamented. 

How long O Lord? The answer is always in the coming of the King. 

Music credit Sovereign Grace Music.

All Creatures of God and the King

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