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Psalm 88:1-5—Praying Honestly When the Darkness Won’t Lift
Evening Scripture:
Lord, you are the God who saves me;
day and night I cry out to you.
May my prayer come before you;
turn your ear to my cry.
I am overwhelmed with troubles
and my life draws near to death.
I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am like one without strength.
I am set apart with the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
who are cut off from your care.
Evening Reflection
It was a cool evening for May, but the bite I felt inside was worse. I’d prayed, but received no answer. I intellectually knew that God heard and saw me, but if that was true, then why did He feel so far away? Why was His presence absent? Did He hear my pleas in the middle of the night?
In Psalm 88:1-5, our Psalmist feels the same way. He’s cried out to God day and night, but is overwhelmed by life’s circumstances. Though He knows God is who saves Him, that doesn’t take away from the overwhelm he feels.
The image our Psalmist feels here is dark. He feels he’s been “set apart with the dead” and those who are dead in the grave, “remembered no more.” Yikes. Talk about some dark depression. But the beauty of this Psalm is that the Psalmist knows God is still the God who saves Him.