We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms

are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms

because they remind us to keep returning

to the truth of God's Word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today.

Every song is not a jubilant song.

Every day is not an easy day, and every memory is not a pleasant memory.

We've come in our study of the Psalms to Psalm 137, and what a different tone it is from the previous Psalm.

You'll remember Psalm 136 was historical in nature and it ended

verse after verse with this glorious truth, his mercy endureth forever. When you come to Psalm 137,

it is not that God's mercy does not endure because we know God's mercy endured through every point in

history. But when we come to this historical Psalm,

the emphasis is rather on the brokenness. It is on the humbling that the people of God had to go through during their Babylonian captivity. Listen to Psalm 137, verse 1. By the rivers of Babylon,

there we sat down. Yay, we we we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps

upon the willows in the midst thereof. Do you hear the tone? Here they are in Babylonian

captivity, far from home, with very little it seems for them to sing about. And so what do they do?

They just sit down and cry.

You ever have a day like that, just a day where you can't help but weep?

Did you know that God's people weep as well?

But just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean you're never going to be sad,

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