Afflictions, suffering, misery, and persecution are common in the human condition. Ailments, calamities, distastes of every proportion will visit us either in person or to someone that we know love or care about.
This week a young father who by his own hand ended his life was laid to rest. Leaving behind a wife and a third grader to a lifetime of wondering why.
Psalm 116 is a song of thanksgiving for God’s help in times of distress. The nature of the distress is not indicated except to say that the psalmist felt close to death.
Unless you have experienced it no one can know what it feels like to lose a husband and a father to suicide. The death has produced a living death with the survivors that only lots of prayer, the Word of God, therapy, and love can numb.
Into all of this there is hope for the psalmist reminds in Psalm 116:6 that “The Lord preserves the simple; for when I was brought low, he saved me.”
Nothing is simpler than the love of a child, it is unconditional, it is unblemished, it is unabashed. The Lord will use the simple love of the third grader for her father to power a victory. As she discovers how the love of God will help her overcome the afflictions, suffering, and misery that her father’s death has brought.
Find the simple in your life, embrace it, cultivate it, thank the Lord for it. For God has promised it is the simple that will save us when we are brought low.
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