Crying from the Depths of Your Being

For this week and the next two weeks I will be using Psalm 130 as the basis of my meditations here. This psalm is the one appointed for our reading in church on this coming Sunday.

The psalmist begins: "Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! Lord, hear my voice!" vs. 1-2

Have you ever had the occasion where you were really desperate and felt the gravity of your condition, so much that you could not help but cry out to God?

Such was the situation with Israel being in Babylonian captivity. All seemed to be lost. The Babylonians had captured Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, killed many of the residents, and transported the rest into exile. What hope did these people of God have, knowing that they lost their homeland, the very place that God had promised to them? The prophet Ezekiel has a vision of dry bones that come back to life! There was hope with God amid the despair of the situation.

I wonder, too, about us. Can we still have the desire to cry out to God when our circumstances look as if there is no hope in sight? I believe we have to consider whether or not we must we base our hope on human power alone. If we do believe in God's infinite power AND love then we can place our trust in God and pray to God from the very depths of our being.

Don't be afraid to you. God can hear you, will accept you, and can transform your life.