Today's Passage: Psalm 88

This is the heart of a man trapped by the nearing of death. He was probably considered unclean and was therefore secluded from a very young age because of a disease. He had lost his strength, his friends and his beloved. Sadly, there is no happy ending to this psalm. So what can we derive from it?

Notice how the lonely and afflicted writer cries out to the Lord day and night, notice the rejection he feels not only by man but by God, and notice how he suffers from uncertainty. He questions if God's faithfulness, righteousness, wonder, and steadfast love continues past death. This psalm may be nothing more than a cry from a desperate heart but it is a cry that most of us can relate to in some way. We have all known out sorrows. Unfortunately, this man wallowed in it.

There is no happy ending to this psalm because this man festered in self-pity while blaming God for all his affliction. He says himself, that darkness was his only companion. This is not what we are called to do. Yes, he has probably known more pain than I will know in a lifetime but nonetheless, we are called to walk in the light. I will leave you with this,

"If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin."

I John 1:7&8