On Being a Sourpuss

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Mar 28, 2026 · 2m

Asaph confesses in Psalm 73 that when he brooded over the prosperity of the wicked and the injustices around him, his heart “became sour,” and in Moffatt’s vivid rendering he became “a dull, stupid creature, no better than a brute” before God. His bitterness accomplished nothing it did not change the ungodly, nor correct their wrongs; it only corrupted his own spirit and distanced him from the Lord, for “they that are far from thee shall perish.” As an old pastor once put it, “There is no such thing as a sour saint.” Whatever the cause of our resentment family wounds, workplace injustices…