Psalm 88

“You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend” (18). The psalmist was very familiar with the experience of being isolated, overwhelmed by troubles, and so low as to be near death (3-5). He knew what it was like to feel trapped by complex, overlapping crises – like a pit he could not escape (6-9). Yet in this pit, he still cried out to the God who had been faithful in the past (13).

“LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you” (1). Nothing we experience is too dark or complicated for the Lord. When we pray, he is faithful to reach down into the pit and deliver us.