Psalm 77 - Feeling forgotten? Then remember what the Lord has done.

Another Psalm with the psalmist crying out of his distress. I cannot be said too often, God hears us when we cry to Him out of our distress.

Now look at the immediate effect. He remembered God, and he groaned. He meditated upon the word and his spirit grew faint. This isn't what we often taught! Remember God and everything will be fine, meditate upon His word and we will be revived.  God will bring peace to us, but here God kept him from sleeping.

All his meditating and calling seemed to do was to remind him of better days, and to feel even more lost. Has God forgotten him forever. 

All of us go through times when God seems to be of no help at all. This is normal Christian experience!

So what does he do next? He does not give up. He keeps on seeking with his mind and spirit a solution. He considered all the things that God had done before. Presumably both for him personally, and what God had done for Israel as a nation. 

Then he declared the greatness of God, recalling earlier deeds of the Lord.

Then the psalm finishes! It does not come to a nice neat end.