In the Lowest Pit
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 88. And as you do so, let me encourage you to brace yourself, because this is probably the saddest Psalm in the whole of the 150 Psalms. You know, in almost every Psalm, no matter how low the psalmist gets, by the end of it you get to some spark of hope, some word of grace. And it just never comes in this Psalm. And that's really important for us to realize. As Christians face troubles, deep troubles, intractable troubles, unrelieved troubles, troubles that never go away in this life, there have been at least four responses to that from teachers. False teachers have often said one of two things to Christians. Some false teachers have said suffering, trouble, pain — it's all an illusion. And if you could just…