We are focusing on Psalm 77 for a few weeks on the podcast.

It's a discouraged Psalm written by a discouraged Psalmist who writes, for example, in verse

four, speaking to God, you hold my eyelids open.

I am so troubled that I cannot speak painful.

He seems to be enduring a season of discouragement.

And as we begin this new year, maybe you are carrying a discouragement in your own life.

If so, it's normal.

It's normal.

Discouragement is like this.

Our Pastor John will say typical Christian life.

They're common, even at the start of a new year.

And in those discouragements, we need our Bibles even more.

Psalm 77 reminds us why daily Bible reading needs to remain our priority in the dark seasons.

Pastor John will remind us that our daily Bible reading is about habit, head, heart,

happening, four things.

The conviction to do it, number one, the discipline of getting truth into our heads,

number two, the work of getting that truth from our head into our heart, number three,

and then finally, number four, sticking to realistic practices that will make daily

Bible reading possible.

Today we look at point number two, getting truth into our heads, even when life hurts.

Here's Pastor John to explain in his new year's sermon in 2000 on Psalm 77.

Here he is.

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