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07/27/2025
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“I cried to you for help, and you have healed me” (2). David begins with gratitude for God’s acts of rescue. God rescued David from “foes” (1), “healed” him (2), and saved him from “Sheol” and the “pit” (3). Yet just when he is feeling secure and proclaims, “I shall never be moved” (6), he faces another “pit”. He pleads for mercy and cries, “what profit is there in my death?” (9). But his past experience of God’s rescue enables him to trust God in this moment (10-12).
God’s past faithfulness to us is God’s current promise in today’s trial. God’s goodness means that despite life’s difficulties, our story does not end in weeping. We know that “joy comes with the morning” (5).