This is what is frustrating and encouraging about the psalms. They are born of a lived reality where confusion, pain, doubt and fear are experienced. David calls for mercy, he is unable to resolve his circumstances through strength of character, experience or intellect - he needs God’s help,
Rather than find it depressing that I am listening to someone who is going through this particular trial, I find it encouraging that God takes his people through these things. David sings of this transformation that the Lord has done for him. Wailing has been turned to dancing and sackcloth replaced with joy. The one who mourned has been comforted but has been brought from facing a funeral to a festival. He has new clothes and is dancing and singing with joy. The light at the end of the tunnel was not the train coming to meet him but a lamp leading him home.
This is number thirty of a series that began life as a commitment to Counting my Blessings every day after ankle surgery on July 2nd 2021.
Initially I made a brief post on social media and wrote a personal daily reflection on a Psalm following the same numerical progression.
Later on in the 100 days I began to also reflect on other scriptures and combine those into my public post
These thoughts from Psalms earlier in the journey have not been made public until now as I was writing primarily for my own benefit. I have been encouraged to share these now.
