Asaph, a Levite from the priestly line in Israel, was a singer who served as David’s appointed choir director. A psalmist who wrote righteous instruction for God’s people, he wrote Psalm 77 after he fell into a deep depression: “My soul refused to be comforted” (77:2).
Circumstance-based Christianity rises and falls on hope in this world. Yet, when our world is shaken and the things in it, we can be shaken, too. Carter Conlon reminds us in this sermon to look up and have a vision beyond the circumstances around us.
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
“I remember, 3 o’clock in the morning,” Ben Crandall related in a sermon on life and death, “on January the 18th, our doorbell rang.