A prayer for comfort when you're grieving, written by Christina Fox and read by Kelly Givens.

Evening morning and noon, I cry out into stress and he hears my voice, Psalm 55-17.

The book of Psalms contains poems that were used in the Israelite's worship.

There were many different types of Psalms, some were sung in Thanksgiving for something

God had done.

Others were sung to remember things from the past.

Some Psalms were sung in praise to God for who he is.

And then there were the laments, the darkest of all the Psalms.

These songs were sung to express the sorrow and fears of life in this fallen world.

The Psalms of lament are filled with questions.

These are not the silly questions we might ask Siri, or the how-to questions we might

enter into a search engine, but they are the questions of a broken heart.

They are the questions of one who is weighed down by the sorrows of this world, by the

fears, grief, and heartaches that we all experience.

On this side of the cross, we know that Jesus fulfilled the Psalms.

These words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written

about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled, Luke 22

44.

Jesus is the answer to every heart's cry.

He came to rescue and redeem us from our greatest fear and our deepest sorrow, eternal death

and separation from God because of our sin.

By his perfect life and sacrificial death, he made a way for us to come into God's presence

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