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Psalm chapter 88 verse one

oh lord god of my salvation

I cry out day and night before you.

So that's the first verse in the Psalm.

And when you keep reading on, there's just a continual crying out to God day and night. My soul is full of troubles. I'm counted among those who go down to the

pit. My companions are shunning me.

Like this is a person who just feels overwhelmed by it all

and can't get relief anywhere in this world.

He says it over and over again,

oh Lord, I cry to you in the morning my prayer comes to you.

And he starts asking why this, that and then the very last verse

Says you have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me my companions have become darkness and that's how the Psalm ends. So the Psalm doesn't end on this high note where

everything is fixed and everything is all right. It ends on this low note with the Psalma is saying

darkness is all around me. Even my friends I can't rely on. They are shunning me. He's totally alone before God. One of the reasons I want to read

the first verse and the last verse is just to remind us that there are some days, some seasons, where even as

we're crying out to God, things still feel really dark and heavy and weighty and full of trouble and sorrow.

It's not that just because we cry out to God the darkness immediately goes away.

Now that's part of the beauty at the same time of Psalm 88 because it shows us this picture of faith that keeps crying out to God day and

night even when the darkness remains I'm guessing we can all identify with that. Crying out to God day and

night and things at the end of the day are not better than things that were at the beginning of the day. Things at the

end of the week, the end of the month, the end of the year don't seem better than they were when we started crying out to God. But this is the posture of faith

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