Out of the depths…

Psalm 130 is the appointed psalm for today. And it begins, “Out of the depths I cry…”

Have you ever felt like you were so far away from God that you didn’t what to do? That you were in the depths of Sheol, or worse? “What can I do, everything is crumbling around me and no matter what I try it doesn’t seem to help it only gets worse, will somebody please help me!”

The psalmist understands this, and knows this place, that is where they are… Asking if God remembers our iniquities and holds them against us who will be able to stand, so please God be attentive to me crying out for you help from the darkest hole I’ve ever been in. The psalmist tells us that is where they are, and they know all about it. The hole seems so big and dark like there is really no way out, and the sad news is it is going to get deeper and darker before the help actually arrives…

The psalmist tells us, as they did, we have to wait on the Lord, our souls have to wait on the Lord and we have to hope in His word. To find solace in the comfort and the words from the God who created us and promised to never leave us or forsake us. And we have more than the psalmist, who would have only known the word of the Lord to be spoken by the prophets or written in the Law, we have Jesus and the revelation of the love God has given through His only begotten Son.

And we have the Spirit…

Remember even the depths of God… my blog post from 2 days ago. Where Paul tells the Corinthians that the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. That the Spirit goes to the unknown places of God, and here the psalmist tells us that they are crying out of the depths… The depths that were created by God, the places that the Holy Spirit is searching…

So fear not as the hole gets darker and deeper, cause the Spirit is with you, and God will see you through. Hope in His word as the psalmist reminds us and cry out of the deep, knowing that He is with you, even in your deepest darkest hole!