When Darkness is Your Only Friend | The Writings | Psalm 88

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

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Psalm 88 is the saddest Psalm in the Bible. The Psalm begins with pain and ends with agony. But the fact that this prayer is in the Bible is good news to those who suffer. In today's episode, Tanya shares how Psalm 88 points us to Jesus - who hears our cries and bore our pain on the cross. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 88

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmouth.
0:18.0	Psalme 8 has been called the saddest Psalm in the Bible. There's only one other Psalm, number 39,
0:22.0	that doesn't at least end on a relatively high note. You know how it goes.
0:26.4	The Psalmus will talk about their distress and their trouble and cry out about what's on their
0:30.9	hearts and then it ends with something like but
0:34.4	Lord surely you were with me all my days or but his steadfast love indoors forever.
0:41.1	But nope not Psalm 88. No, this one ends like this. It says, but
0:47.3	darkness is my closest companion. Or in the original Hebrew, it ends on the word darkness.
0:55.8	My closest companion is darkness.
0:59.6	Darkness is the theme of this psalm.
1:01.5	It's actually mentioned three times. If there are
1:04.9	Mountain Top experiences, Psalm 88 is not it. If there are experiences where you can
1:11.0	at least see how to get to the mountaintop. This is not it.
1:15.6	I've been to the Grand Canyon and from the rim and the trails close to the
1:20.9	rim you look into the valley and the Colorado River and the valley, they
1:25.4	look tiny, like a little chocolate ribbon running through the canyon.
1:31.0	But Psalm 88 was written from the valley, where the canyon and the river look and feel as big as they really are.
1:41.0	Psalm 88 has no turning point, no resolution, and yet its very
1:47.8	presence in the Bible is reason to hope. Let me tell you why. First, it helps us manage our expectations. It helps
1:57.9	us want to keep praying. It tells us we aren't in unfamiliar territory and it explains the relative nature of
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