Today [Psalm Forty-Four] Enduring Contradiction to God’s Promise. Has God promised you something in His word and failed to deliver? Every one of us can identify in our lives conditions that are contradictory to the plain promise of scripture. What is to be our response? Do we pervert the scriptures and suggest that God didn’t mean what He said? Or do we transparently bring our complaint to God knowing, as the writer of this psalm that God will always be faithful to His people even when we suffer long periods of personal agony – that ultimately will be lifted by His hand.