Psalms 88:1
"LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before you day and night." (It was only a cry, a cry as of an animal in pain or, at best, the cry of a child that has lost his mother. I think this is the darkest of all the psalms; it has hardly a spot of light in it. The only bright words are in the first verse. The rest of the psalm is dark and dreary. Why, then, should we read it? Because some poor hearts among us are heavy. We cannot tell how many sorrowing and burdened spirits there may be, but a dozen or two may be driven almost to despair. They need to know that somebody else has been just where they are. I remember how the shipwrecked man on the lonely island all of a sudden came across the footprints of another human being. So here, on the lone island of despondency, we can trace the footprints of another who has been before us. This psalm is an example of persevering prayer. The man who wrote it-"Heman the Ezrahite"-kept on praying even when he did not seem to be heard, and thus he is an example for us).
Charles H. Spurgeon
"LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before you day and night." (It was only a cry, a cry as of an animal in pain or, at best, the cry of a child that has lost his mother. I think this is the darkest of all the psalms; it has hardly a spot of light in it. The only bright words are in the first verse. The rest of the psalm is dark and dreary. Why, then, should we read it? Because some poor hearts among us are heavy. We cannot tell how many sorrowing and burdened spirits there may be, but a dozen or two may be driven almost to despair. They need to know that somebody else has been just where they are. I remember how the shipwrecked man on the lonely island all of a sudden came across the footprints of another human being. So here, on the lone island of despondency, we can trace the footprints of another who has been before us. This psalm is an example of persevering prayer. The man who wrote it-"Heman the Ezrahite"-kept on praying even when he did not seem to be heard, and thus he is an example for us).
Charles H. Spurgeon
Psalms 88:1
"LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before you day and night." (It was only a cry, a cry as of an animal in pain or, at best, the cry of a child that has lost his mother. I think this is the darkest of all the psalms; it has hardly a spot of light in it. The only bright words are in the first verse. The rest of the psalm is dark and dreary. Why, then, should we read it? Because some poor hearts among us are heavy. We cannot tell how many sorrowing and burdened spirits there may be, but a dozen or two may be driven almost to despair. They need to know that somebody else has been just where they are. I remember how the shipwrecked man on the lonely island all of a sudden came across the footprints of another human being. So here, on the lone island of despondency, we can trace the footprints of another who has been before us. This psalm is an example of persevering prayer. The man who wrote it-"Heman the Ezrahite"-kept on praying even when he did not seem to be heard, and thus he is an example for us).
Charles H. Spurgeon
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