Hither Green Baptist Church

David's thought-provoking sermon on Psalm 88 is available in the online sermon archive.

Here are verses 1-9, taken from The Message translation:

God, you're my last chance of the day.
I spend the night on my knees before you.
Put me on your salvation agenda;
take notes on the trouble I'm in.
I've had my fill of trouble;
I'm camped on the edge of hell.
I'm written off as a lost cause,
one more statistic, a hopeless case.
Abandoned as already dead,
one more body in a stack of corpses,
And not so much as a gravestone,
I'm a black hole in oblivion.
You've dropped me into a bottomless pit,
sunk me in a pitch-black abyss.
I'm battered senseless by your rage,
relentlessly pounded by your waves of anger.
You turned my friends against me,
made me horrible to them.
I'm caught in a maze and can't find my way out,
blinded by tears of pain and frustration.

You can read the whole Psalm on the Bible Gateway site. Unlike most Psalms, it doesn't get any happier than that; have a listen to David's sermon as he unpicks what this has to say about living a life of faith in the darkest of times.