Abandoned By God

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Psalm 88

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No psalm is more dark and disturbing than Psalm 88. Heman describes his unspeakable sufferings which he regarded as tokens of divine abandonment. The tone of this psalm is summarized in the closing verse and its last word: darkness. This message explores the main point of this psalm which is that God sometimes abandons His people to great suffering to exercise them to identify with Christ.