Darkness, death, affliction, abandonment, loneliness, punishment, wrath — that’s Psalm 88 for you.

Dreary? You bet!

But, sometimes, that’s how life seems.

Is.

And, at times, that’s even how we live.

So let me tell you this morning’s lesson for me (as I found it in verses 10-12):

“Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.”

“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?”

“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”

Shall I, the living, arise and praise God, remembering and declaring his lovingkindness and righteousness?

Those out in the cemetaries don’t.

Am I no more responsive than they to His wonders, lovingkindness, faithfulness, and righteousness?