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Psalms
S AY I N G Y E S I N T H E D A R K N E S S
A few days into a recent January, my life fell apart. One of our kids
decided he didn’t want to be in our family anymore. A few months
later, there was a death in the family, and then my husband’s
dad was in the hospital. Mere months after that, I was called as
character witness in a friend’s murder trial. He had been placed on
death row over a decade prior. Life was hard. Life is hard.
We have a choice to walk with God through it all . . . or not. We
can say Yes through the darkness or we can let it envelop us so
deeply we feel we cannot get out. Yes, this is a study about some
of David’s psalms. But it’s more than that . . . it’s trying to see the
fuller picture. It’s trying to find the light in it all.
Psalms is celebrated for its passages of praise, but it’s also
known for sections of lament—of learning how to rest in the hard.
But I don’t want to just rest in my difficulty and pain; I want to keep
moving. This study is about that in-between space: walking from
the lament and into the praise. David wrote psalms directly out
of experiences we can read about in 1 and 2 Samuel, and we can
see not only how he responded to those experiences, but how
he followed God in the wake of them. Through the life of David,
we see the extraordinary choice to step out through the difficulty,
living in expectation that God will move and we will see light
because He is the Light.
Let’s get to it!
Take joy,