The city where I live had the roughest winter in 30 years. My muscles ached to take out for hours the snow that did not stop. When I entered the house, after what seemed like a futile effort, I received the warmth of a campfire and my children around the home. When I looked out the window, from the protection of my house, my perspective on the climate changed completely. I could no longer see the work to be done, but the beauty of the frozen branches of the trees and the winter landscape bathed in the white of the snow.
When I read Psalm 73, I see in Asaf a similar change, although much more moving. At first, he laments the way the world seems to work, with its apparent reward for the bad. He doubts the value of being different from the crowd and living for the good of others. But when he enters the sanctuary of God, his perspective changes: remember that the Lord will put things in their place and that, more importantly, it is good to be with Him.
When seemingly incessant problems give us chills, we can enter into prayer in the presence of God and feel the heat of transforming truth that their judgment is better than ours. Although our circumstances do not change, it can change our perspective.
Read: Psalm 73: 12-28
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