Psalm 77 “A God for Sleepless Nights and Speechless Days”

1. God’s people ought to lament (77:1-2).
   – Crying Out Often ...
   – Expressing Every Emotion and Experience ...
   – To God!

“Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy face, and shall I seek in vain? / And can the ear of sov’reign
grace be deaf when I complain? / No, still the ear of sov’reign grace attends the mourner’s
prayer; / O may I ever find access to breathe my sorrows there.” - Anne Steele

1. Lament is not a quick-fix solution to our anguish (77:2-9).

– Even when we remember our good days
– Even when we remember our good God

“No respite has been afforded us by the silence of the night, our bed has been a rack to us, our
body has been in torment, and our spirit in anguish.” – Charles Spurgeon

1. Lament is vital to relate with the God who delivers through darkness (77:10-20).
   – The God of the Red Sea
   – The God of the Cross
   “In the Old Testament, his way was through the sea. In the New Testament, his way is through
   the cross. The gracious provision of God confounds us even as it delivers us.” — Dane Ortlund