28 - My soul melteth for heaviness:
strengthen thou me
according to thy word.
The word "melteth" comes from dalaph, a Hebrew word meaning "to drop or drip (to weep)." Heaviness is transcribed from tuwgah, a Hebrew word meaning "sorrow." Strengthen is transcribed from quwm, a Hebrew word meaning "to arise."
A melting heart--the ultimate state of depression. The deepest depths. A place where the hole is so deep and the night so black, no hope can survive.
The Psalmist knew that state. I am personally familiar with that state. So many of the prophets and those called and chosen by the Creator have known that state. And millions of Americans and precious people who sit in the hallowed walls of our churches are there. Perhaps you are there or have been there.
How many thousands of books have been written in some form on "How to Overcome Depression?" If one would but dare claim it, the answer lies in one verse!
A prayer--a whispered plea from a desperate heart--a thin wail--"Strengthen thou me according to thy Word..."
"Strengthen" asks for more than strength to stay where you are. The word means "to arise and go forward." It says, "Let me walk OUT of here..."
"...according to thy Word!" Metabolizing the Word gives us strength to climb from the black hole of hopelessness. It's a process of eating!
If you are in the black of night, wrap yourself in the pages of ink that lives. Eat it and metabolize it and walk into hope!
© 2012 by Melani Brady Shock
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