Devotionals

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My heart is broken. Depression haunts my days. My weary nights are filled with pain.... all night long I toss and turn, and my garments bind about me. Job 30:16-18 (LB)

In my troubles, I pled with God to help me, and he did. Psalm 120:1 (LB)

Two guys, Job and the Psalmist, both going through a world of hurt, both suffering bitter depression. They know the feeling of going from having it all to having nothing. They have suffered physical pain, financial ruin, bereavement, betrayal. Their fondest dreams have become their worst nightmares.

Well, we're only in chapter 30 of Job so he doesn't know how the story will end. But the Psalmist is speaking from a position of retrospect. He is looking back on the way it was. "I pled with God to help me, and he did!"

I love that little testimony, "And he did." It says it all. No need for a lengthy explanation. No two hour theological discourse on the Doctrine of Divine Intervention. In three words he says everything that needs to be said.

The passage gives me hope. You see, I have issues that I am dealing with. I'm only in chapter thirty of my story. I don't know how the novel will end.

Job speaks of sleepless nights. Let me say, "Job, Brother, I been there, done that!" I know what it's like when you can't find a comfortable spot in the bed. The pillow is either too fat or too skinny. You hear the bathroom faucet dripping, the fridge going off and on.

But the Psalmist pled with God for help. And he did! Nuf sed.

O God, you know the cry of my heart. Rescue me, I pray. My hope is in you. Amen

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