NOTES for Psa 76:2-3
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. |
3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. |
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A sleepless conversation with oneself, recorded many centuries ago, still touches the heart today. When the state of being abandoned by God comes over a person, when it seems that the Lord's mercy has dried up, what is a person to do when, in the middle of the night darkness, his own inner darkness overwhelms him?
The way out found by the ancient composer of the psalm may seem strange and unconvincing to a superficial perception. What is the use of chewing over memories of times long past? What relation do they have to my problems today, and do they have any?
But they do have one. Behind these memories stands the priceless experience of communion between a person and God. By touching it, we learn that the situations tormenting us have occurred more than once before and did not remain without an answer. Therefore memories of the Lord's actions in former ages are not chewing over archival information, but a source of hope that makes us stronger.
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