The Same God

This week we begin a short series on prayer in the psalms. Psalm 77 begins with a situation familiar to many of us: a long agonizing night of worry and trouble, and a silence from God that feels overwhelming. By his example, the psalmist shows us the prayer of a faithful Christian. Drawing from the Exodus and from Moses’ encounter with God on Mount Sinai, the psalmist shows that the people of God are assured about the future by looking to the past, and yet not necessarily our own individual pasts. We look to God‘s great saving acts. God has done the impossible by making a way for salvation. Will that same God really give up on the saving purposes he made known at the Red Sea and at the Cross?