O Lord, I Have Waited For Thee: Psalm 130
O Lord, I Have Waited For Thee Psalm 130 There is nothing little in God; his mercy is like himself, it is infinite. You cannot measure it. Charles Spurgeon The depths. The valley. The wilderness. Darkness. These metaphors for trouble and affliction have become familiar as I have journeyed through the psalms. It seems we can only make it a psalm or two before the psalmist is again in a troubling circumstance or his spirit is disturbed within him. But that is so much like life. Rare would be the life untouched by frequent disturbances. Some of our difficulties are even the result of our own sinfulness, and so the pain can feel like a double-edged sword. Pain from the suffering, and pain from the regret. Psalm 130 is one of the penitential psalms, where the psalmist, deeply aware of his sin and its consequences, cries to the Lord for mercy and forgiveness. He begins the psalm with, “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!” These depths can often refer to waters and seas and rep...