When other sin against you, the resulting pain is so very real.

Nancy de Masoogam says, you can be honest about that pain to the Lord.

God's not asking you to bury that pain or to pretend like the offense never happened.

In fact, he wants us to face that pain honestly.

To let him know the pain and the anger we feel.

You can tell God.

Then he also wants us to do what this psalmist is doing, and that's give it all to God.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For Thursday, April 22nd, I'm Dana Gresh.

How do you respond when you experience pain at the hands of others?

We're going to reflect on that today as Nancy continues in this series singing the Lord's song in a foreign land.

It's a study of Psalm 137, which is written from the point of view of Jewish people who've just been exiled

from their homes and are captive in Babylon. They certainly knew this difficult type of pain.

Now, if you missed any episodes in this wonderful series so far, you can find them on the Revive Our Hearts app

or at Revive Our Hearts.com. Now here's Nancy.

Now Psalm 137, one commentator said, has the distinction of having one of the most beloved

opening lines and the most horrifying closing line of any Psalm. And we're about to see that that's surely true. First four

verses God's people pining for Zion, longing for their homeland. Verse one by the waters of

Babylon. There we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there, we hung up our harps, our liars.

No use for them. Don't feel like singing. For there are captors required of us songs, and our

tormentors mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

It's a lament. How can we do it? Well, and then in verses five and six, God's people pledge. They promise to never forget, to remember Jerusalem.

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