Week 10 Psalm 60
At the end of psalm 60 David asked the Lord for divine assistance because, as he put it: all human help is useless. So it reminded me how the bible sometimes says things in an unmodified way.
Saying that all human help is useless is unqualified enough that it makes me wonder if it needs some qualification.
Because – after all – I’m human so I tend to think that sometimes human help is useful and so I don’t much like the idea that all human help is useless. I wonder…if I could show that some human help is actually useful in some circumstances then I could say that it’s not quite accurate to say that all human help is useless.
But if I can legitimately say that some human help is useful then why does the bible say here that all human help is useless? Or I can ask a more general question. If the bible says something without any qualification and I can think-up a qualification then where does that leave me? Where does it leave the bible?
I think psalm 60’s all-human-help-is-useless comment is just one more example of the kind of puzzling content that a bible reader runs across during the reading year.
Reading through I’m finding out what-it-says. But I can’t seem to escape things that make me wonder why-it’s-said.
Note: quote from Psalm 60:11 (NLT)