Psalm 102

It took two minutes to read this psalm of anguish. This song began with a cry of desperation for help. The tears of sorrow and ashes of mourning flavor this writer's words. Yet the longer the psalmist mourned before God, the quicker his words began to change. The tone of his anguish was moved to praise for God. They were praises not because he sent the sorrow, but because God was faithful and presence in the middle of the battle with the pain. When sorrow was about to overwhelm this writer of faith the light of God's presence broke in. In the end God's nature remains true and untarnished; and it rubs off on to our lives.
Stuart