A follow-up to the last blog.  The writer of a psalm was bemoaning the unfairness of this world, where the rich and powerful prosper and the poor and weak suffer. In verses 15-22, he realizes that there is more to life than this world and reaches a crescendo with the verses below:

²³ Yet I am always with you;
    you hold me by my right hand.
²⁴ You guide me with your counsel,
    and afterward you will take me into glory.
²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever.   -Psalm 73:23-26

These have been important verses for me when I was depressed and pitied myself for my misfortune in this world. This world had failed me – and so what? I realized my life here on earth was a brief breath of air and my real life would start after I passed from this world into the next. Indeed, earth had nothing I desired, but my God was ever with me in this world and I’d be with him for eternity in the next. O freedom, O freedom, O freedom from the travails of this earth when my old body passes into the grave and I am resurrected in body, soul, and spirit. Indeed freedom after a while.