King David had bad times and bad days. Most of the time, he trudged through hard circumstances on top of these feelings. He encountered depression, desolation, enmity, and the feeling that God had abandoned the world - and he recorded these feelings as a part of God's Holy Word. Dale Ralph Davis isn't afraid that the Bible will give the wrong impression by saying that sometimes life is hard. Sometimes, life is hard Sometimes, it is saddening. Have you ever had a morning where you did not feel like getting out of bed? Davis plunges right into the middle of King David's hard times with a study that is resonant for us. The point of the story is not the feeling, but the response. King David's faith brought him through the muddy parts of life. Will we find that depression is our final response to a hard path? Or will faith carry us across? Davis says in the preface to this book that he hadn't planned to write another study of the Psalms after he wrote his commentary of the first twelve Psalms, The Way of the Righteous in the Muck of Life. But, he continues, "the next dozen Psalms were just sitting there and they tempted me. When the Bible tempts you, you should always yield. So I did." This rich and rewarding study is the fruit of this temptation. Enjoy the exploration of these verses with Davis, and let it help you to find out the encouragement that Psalms 13-24 holds for the Scripture-filled life.
