Psalm 40
One might be tempted to ask, “Can this guy make up his mind how he feels?” In one breath, the psalmist says, “He lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the mire and clay.” In the next breath, he laments that “innumerable troubles have crowded upon me.”
It’s not just the Psalms, all 150 of them, that cover the gamut of human emotions and responses to God. Sometime just one Psalm will contain contradictory ideas. Here in Psalm 40 are contained gratitude for God’s love, and fear of God’s abandonment.
Sometimes, when we are feeling our worst, it may be that the only thing keeping us afloat is the memory of how God has helped us in the past. Keeping those memories uppermost in our conscious thoughts might help us pass the present period when we are feeling as though God has abandoned us.
What memories do you have of God’s love toward you? Treasure those memories. You never know when you’re going to need them.
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