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Psalm 130



Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
    O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
    to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, hope in the Lord!
    For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
    and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
    from all his iniquities. 

What in the world is going on?!

-A virus has spread across most of the nations in the world without vaccine.
-Stores are emptying with people panic shopping
-There is no more toilet paper in America it seems.
-Schools all over are closed.
-Almost all, if not all, of the professional sports leagues are cancelled

-World governments are scrambling to contain the spread of COVID-19
-The stock market is acting like a roller coaster at Hershey Park 

So with all of this going on? Where should we hope? Is there hope? Yes! There is Hope!

In Psalms 130, we see someone who is in a tough place. This person is in the depths of life itself. The worst possible place and he cries out to God. I think we see how desperate the psalmist is in that he cries to God and says “hear my voice.” When we find ourselves in the depths of life, the most difficult place that is what is often said, because we are looking for an immediate answer. The Psalmist is waiting on the Lord with anticipation. But even though he is in the depths of life, he has a tremendous hope. He waits for deliverance with HOPE! 

Where is the Psalmists hope found?

The Lord
The Word of the Lord 

We know that the Lord is sovereign. He is over-all (Ephesians 4:6).  He has given us so many promises in His Word. The Psalmist highlights two things.  

-Hope in the Lord because of His steadfast love!
-Hope in the Lord because with him is redemption. 

Where do you find your hope? 

HOPE IN THE LORD! “For He is Good and His love endures Forever.”

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 

May you always find your Hope in the one who never fails, in the one who is ever-constant.
God is Good!  

Tony
Here is Psalm 130 in song by the Getty’s


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