Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of the waterspouts, and all God's waves and billows roll over the speaker, picturing distress as overwhelming waters like a flood pouring over a person. That drowning sense belongs with thirsting for the living God, weeping day and night, feeling forgotten by God the rock, mourning under the oppression of the enemy, bearing reproach and the taunt over where God is, with the soul cast down and disquieted and pained to the bones. The sound of many waters and deep calling to deep is the voice of the Creator in the roar of the sea. The sea lashed into fury and raging under the winds represents the wrath of an offended God against transgression, while its mighty waves held within appointed limits by an invisible hand reveal infinite power controlling the deep. Its tumult recalls the flood that came when people transgressed God's law.
The speaker is filled with awe at the overwhelming trouble yet holds faith and confidence in God. With the next verse, distress and even the exposure of inward character do not remove assurance, for the Lord still commands His loving-kindness by day and gives His song by night with prayer to the God of life. For those in discouragement, the lesson is not to look on the dark side and not to think or talk unbelief, but to hope in God and yet praise Him for the help of His countenance as the health of the countenance, waiting on the Lord with good courage for a strengthened heart instead of staying cast down and disquieted.
It is the privilege of every Christian to have the Lord Jesus as burden-bearer, for the Lord sustains the afflicted and reveals His power, giving reason to trust Him and cast every care upon Him. As was true for Brother Mead when nearly overcome by trouble yet still loved by God, the promise is that God will bring the trusting sufferer through the furnace of affliction purified.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of the waterspouts, and all God's waves and billows roll over the speaker, picturing distress as overwhelming waters like a flood pouring over a person. That drowning sense belongs with thirsting for the living God, weeping day and night, feeling forgotten by God the rock, mourning under the oppression of the enemy, bearing reproach and the taunt over where God is, with the soul cast down and disquieted and pained to the bones. The sound of many waters and deep calling to deep is the voice of the Creator in the roar of the sea. The sea lashed into fury and raging under the winds represents the wrath of an offended God against transgression, while its mighty waves held within appointed limits by an invisible hand reveal infinite power controlling the deep. Its tumult recalls the flood that came when people transgressed God's law.
The speaker is filled with awe at the overwhelming trouble yet holds faith and confidence in God. With the next verse, distress and even the exposure of inward character do not remove assurance, for the Lord still commands His loving-kindness by day and gives His song by night with prayer to the God of life. For those in discouragement, the lesson is not to look on the dark side and not to think or talk unbelief, but to hope in God and yet praise Him for the help of His countenance as the health of the countenance, waiting on the Lord with good courage for a strengthened heart instead of staying cast down and disquieted.
It is the privilege of every Christian to have the Lord Jesus as burden-bearer, for the Lord sustains the afflicted and reveals His power, giving reason to trust Him and cast every care upon Him. As was true for Brother Mead when nearly overcome by trouble yet still loved by God, the promise is that God will bring the trusting sufferer through the furnace of affliction purified.