Today we reach the half-way point in our journey through Psalm 77. We’re now going to notice verse 10, with 10 more verses awaiting attention.

Listen to Asaph, our “philosophical” but “godly” writer.

“And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.” A personal testimony, Psalm 77:10.

This man, a staunch believer in the Lord, has been suffering greatly. Both emotionally and physically it seems. But he has (wisely) decided that whatever has come his way … God has governed every iota of it all!

And his “troubles” (verse 2) and “sores” (still verse 2) and “sleeplessness” (verse 4) and “rejection” (verse 7) and “doubt” (verse 8) … are all to be lumped into one category! “Infirmity,” just “burdens” God has allowed him (Asaph) to bear!

Sort or like Paul’s “thorn in the flesh,” maybe.

“This is my infirmity …”

The noun “infirmity” (in Hebrew “chalah”) means “weakness, sickness, pain, wound, grief” … all “assignments” from God!

Listen to Jeremiah in Lamentations 3:27. The same idea Asaph is presenting us, I think. “It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.”

Wow!

“Hard times,” for the child of God?

Yes, maybe to help us pray more!

To help us become better “soldiers” of the Cross, as in boot-camp!

Surely as well, to help prepare us to better support (have empathy for) others who will later go through the same trials we have experienced!

Also to help us better identify with the “sufferings” of our Savior!

“And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.”

What will help me to better bear any “infirmity” God sends?

Remembering the Lord!

His eternality, the endless number of “years” of His Being! In fact, He is undoubtedly outside the very realm of time!

And God’s “Right Hand?”

Yes.

Which usually in Scripture signifies God’s Power! As in Exodus 15:6 here. “Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.”

Asaph is considering his “trials” as “blessings” now. And is keeping his eyes on the Lord God Almighty!

And soon … no longer complaining (verse 3) … this Psalmist will be praising (verse 13) God with all his heart!

Amen!

“And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.”

Wow!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell