Today's Sermon:

“Finding Hope in the Face of Adversity”

I. Descend Into the Darkness - vs. 1-20

II. Look Up from the Darkness- vs. 19-23

The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: ‘Why art thou cast down’—what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: ‘Hope thou in God’—instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.-Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression

III. Climb Out of the Darkness- Vs. 24-27

“I said to the man at the Gate of the Year, ‘Give me a light that I may walk safely into the unknown.” He said to me, “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand in the hand of God, and it shall be to you better than the light, and safer than the known.’”Minnie Louise Haskins, “God Knows”