Psalm
30:2-5 O Lord my God, I cried to you for
help, and you have healed me. O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you
restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. Sing praises to
the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a
lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
A psalm of
remembrance
Knowing God in his worship
experience has done great things for the psalmist. Human beings like to think
in terms of up and down. At one moment we are down, depressed and low. At other
times we speak of being up, on cloud-nine. Down denotes sorrow. Up denotes joy.
Maybe this is why we think of heaven as being up there beyond the rainbow in
the sky. Hell is down, down low beneath the surface of the earth.
The writer says that God has
pulled him up out of misery into joy. Not saying from what place or situation
he has been raised up from, he does say that the event brought him healing. His
rescue was by God. He could have been sick or in prison, we do not know. For
the writer there is no clear line between sickness of the body or sickness of
the soul. Our God is the great Physician of all the body’s ailments.
