Sometimes we cry ourselves back to laughter before the Lord.

Lament what has really been painful.

And then we've had a safe place to put it, a God we can trust, who knew anyway.

We come in our honest estate.

And that very lament that we were afraid to do brings us back to a place of praise and joy.

Remind me how many points that I told you we were going to have. All right, how many points did we got?

All right, and what are they? So start with number one. What is number one?

God is indeed good. That's exactly the way the psalmist begins the 73rd Psalm. He wants us us to know from the top god is indeed good but he's going to then testify to us that he struggled with the concept for a while just like a few

people in this room have surely done along the way we talked about the fact that this Psalm is just inspired as inspired as any other chapter

of scripture as well as every other lament, that these were given by God to us,

to give us language how to get out of our hearts what is seated inside when the enemy wants

to come at us with faithlessness. So number one is God is indeed good, but number two is what?

As for me, my feet almost slipped. And it brings us, the true crisis comes.

He words it in a question that falls in verse 13,

and we've got it in a capsule in point number three.

And what is it?

Did I do all this for nothing?

I just wonder, would you just show with a hand if you've ever thought to yourself,

did I do all this for nothing?

And the feeling of that, especially when something has been a ton of hard work,

and you put everything you had into it.

And I know, I know what that is like.

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