In his 2008 sermon on Psalm 42, John Pember talked about spiritual depression, specifically

what should we do when the darkness of spiritual depression descends into our lives?

Here are the third and fourth points of application John Pember draws from the text.

He sings to the Lord at night pleading for his life.

This man is very strange.

He's so unusual.

Oh, to be more like him in my pain, verse 8, by day the Lord commands his steadfast love

and at night.

Now what's this?

At night, his song, God's song, is with me a prayer to the God of my life.

What does that mean?

That means that late at night, tears flowing down his face, he's singing a prayer to God

for his life.

You got my life?

I got no other place to ask for help.

I'm coming to you.

And he sings it.

Ever done that?

We need to have a broad enough hymnology or musicology or whatever you call it in a day

so that you have a battery of songs that work on the greatest days of leaping and the

worst days of collapse, you got a song.

They're all over the Psalms.

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