Psalm 137
Of all the Psalms, this one is the most problematic and perhaps has the least direct application for us as disciples of Christ. This is especially true of verse 9. We are told not to take revenge but to leave room for God’s wrath. What we see in the second half of this Psalm is the destruction of Babylon as the Persians were wrecking her.
But there is an application for us. Notice that for the Babylonians, the music of worship was nothing more than entertainment. God’s people refused to prostitute their sacred songs for nothing more than a show. Their condition of exile produced such sorrow and grief that recreational music was out of the question. There ought to be times in the life and worship of the disciple that are given over to sorrow and mourning. In fact, the person of sorrow is in an enviable position, Matt 5:4. Our dangerous tendency to focus entirely on happy and fun moments in the ministry, worship, and life of the church puts us in the camp of the Babylonians rather than the people of God. The "world," the "flesh," and the “pride of life" are so antithetical to our Lord and His Kingdom that we can rejoice when we see them ruined.
“Lord, help me rejoice when you destroy the evil in my life. AMEN."
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