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Death and bad news has been very real this week to someone.
The reality is that every week is a hard week for someone.
Some are walking through valleys
Some are wandering aimlessly
Some have lost perspective on life
In the midst of these hard times the answers seem simple to those distant from the events.
Yet mere answers don’t usually help much when you are hurting We still hurt.
The pain is real.
The questions are real.
The fact is that truth can be cold and distant.
Necessary?
Yes.
But when life is hard cold truth doesn’t seem to help much.
In the aches of life we need more than information.
We need someone to come alongside.
Someone to care.
So David writes about during one of his own hard times in Psalm 61
When Life is too Hard – He looks to His strong tower.
I. Our Strong Tower: Cry Out in Crisis
A. When the heavens are silent Psalm 61:1
NKJV Psalm 61
1 Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my prayer.
1.
The problem
a. Things seem out of control
b.
Pain is too great
c.
Sometimes events seem to contradict what we “know is true”
d.
Pat answers are insufficient – events more significant than knowledge
2. Many reasons
a. Consequences of sin
b.
A time of drifting
c.
Dark night of the soul
3. The response
a. Honest outburst of emotion to God
b.
I am hurting
c.
The world is winning
d.
Where are you God – You don’t care
4. From the depth of despair still a confession of trust (expectation)
B. In the midst of overwhelming difficulty Psalm 61:2a
2 From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; …
1. Immense separation
a.
At the brink of death
2. Drowning in problems
a.
Submerged and drowning – over your head – massive waves of trouble breaking over your head
3. Fog of confusion
a. Engulfed like deep fog – can’t see – closed in
4. Emotional exhaustion
a. Overwhelmed
b.
Loss of hope
c.
Estrangement
d.
Despair
e.
I can endure no more – about to fail
C. Search for something beyond myself Psalm 61:2b
2 … Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
1.
Perhaps a crag in a massive cliff
a. Cool inside when the heat arises
b.
Warm when the cold wind blows
c.
Dry and untouched by the wind rain lightening – blunts upon the massive rock
d.
Pettit Jean state park in Ark – underneath a cliff – Indian paintings – heavy rain – untouched by the elements
2. Perhaps a high place save from the waves
a. Waves crash into it – but the waves are destroyed not the rock
b.
From the safety of the cliff you can watch the ocean beat uselessly at the rocks below – you are save – Ireland on the Skye Isles – below the waves crash but to no avail
3. On a rocky summit that is higher than I am
a. Moro Rock – Sequoia NP – walk out on a bare rock – stairs chiseled in stone
b.
Safety
c. Perspective
4. The Rock
a.
Not built by man
b.
Impervious to all nature can throw against it
c.
Unable to overcome
d.
A need for stability
e.
A need for perspective
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A need for one greater
a.
A foundation that extends beyond me – I am not enough
b.
A need for help to get there – it is beyond me (too high for me)
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