Week 3 Psalm 20
Last night in the news I saw where a big country is threatening a small country. Let’s call them Red Country & Blue Country. Red Country is powerful and parks 100,000+ troops – plus tanks artillery jets and like that – on Blue Country’s border. It there’s a war Reds will beat Blues because of pure numerical superiority. That’s how numbers work.
It’s hard not to think about the Reds & the Blues while I read verse 7: some nations boast of their armies and weapons. Today’s application of this verse would read something like this: Red Country can boast & strut & rattle around because they have more soldiers and materiel than Blue Country and so they’ll win a war.
I keep reading to the end of verse 7: some nations boast of their armies and weapons but we boast in the Lord our God. So for David another uncounted factor was in the mix.
I can’t say with any precision how this non-numerical element works out in real day-to-day life – like for instance with the Reds and the Blues. My guess is that it’s a bit unpredictable and dependent on other factors. But that’s not the real point…which is that a Basic Principle in Bible World is that there’s a world I can see and I world I can’t see.
Reds and Blues run their numbers assessing tangible-material-visible assets. Meanwhile – if David is right – a pretty crucial wild-card isn’t getting factored into the spread sheets.
Note: quote from Psalm 20:7 (NLT)