A psalm begins in utter confusion, and ends in sweetness. The Korahites composed this little number as a piece of hope. They begin in the chaotic, in the disastrous. But this is only a backdrop to the intense hope of a heaven-to-earth connection found in verses 10-13.
What would it look like to have love and faithfulness meet? Or to have righteousness and peace locked in embrace, kissing? If faithfulness burst forth from the earth and collided with righteousness in heaven, what would be the result? Jesus. Jesus Christ is the heaven-to-earth connection that people in the Old Testament waited for but never fully saw. In Jesus, love for God and neighbor was met with absolute faithfulness. Jesus exuded peace, even in His anger, and lived a righteous life. In Jesus, we see all of the things that the Korahites sang about. And so the hope we have is a little different than theirs. They hoped for something (or someone) to come, and we hope for the return of that same person. Both ideas may offend our modern sensibilities, yet still we wait. And we wait to see the poetry of Psalm 85 lived out. I hope you see a glimpse of it today.
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