O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things!
Sing to God a brand-new song. He’s made a world of wonders!
When I first started these devotions I thought I would be unable to write a devotion on a praise psalm. I knew the psalms would express my depression in words. But even these psalms of despair convinced me that my depression was clinical, an illness. I would say, “I have a good life. Why do I feel this way?” In terms of treatment, answering the why is important because depression can be an illness or it can be a response to a difficult life situation. In terms of justifying depression, this question is a dead end. The praise psalms help me throw out the why question. They remind me that God is God. Period.
Lord, I am, in sickness or health, only a human being. Let me be comforted by reading the psalms that praise you. Let them remind me that you are God. Amen.
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