On This third Sunday of Advent, we take a closer look at Psalm 85. This psalm was probably written after the Jewish people returned to their land following their seventy years of captivity in Babylon (Jer. 29). Scottish preacher George H. Morrison said, “The victorious Christian life is a series of new beginnings,” and he is right. It is a sin to disobey God and fall, but it is also a sin to stay fallen. We must always make a new beginning, and this psalm gives us some instructions that we can follow after times of failure and chastening. In our waiting, let us remember what God has done, is doing and will do.
