The Psalms give us the true and trustworthy decrees of the Lord. They reveal to us God as he is, not necessarily as we want him to be. And so, from time to time, the revealed God can be unsettling and disconcerting. So we read in Psalm 94:2, "Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!" To our western, modern ears, this is hard to take. Is this really how God is? What we must confront this week is not God, but our own hearts and realize that what we need is very often what we do not want. But this is very good news. Let's pray that the Spirit softens our hearts for Sunday.