A Healing Journey:
Transforming Mourning Into Dancing
Scripture: Psalm 30
Our passage today introduces
us to a song. It’s David’s song of thanksgiving. He has faced some
life-threatening situation, perhaps a serious illness (v. 3), that God has
delivered him from, and his tongue has been loosened in praise. What David
learned on the healing journey changes his perspective of life. He realized
that it was the favor of God that made his life secure, not his prosperity. He
couldn’t be certain that his difficulties were a sign of God’s anger, but he
could be sure that joy would return after a night of weeping—because of the
inescapable grace of God. With this realization he allowed God to dump his
mourning clothes and wrap him with garments of joy. David declared that he
would give God thanks forever.
Today David invites us to
sing to the Lord (v. 4). Reflect on your healing journey and write your own
psalm of thanksgiving:
I will extol you, O Lord, for
you have ____ [fill in the blank]
and did not let _____ [fill
in the blank].
O
Lord my God, I called to you for help and you _____ [fill in the blank].
O Lord you ____ [fill in the
blank]; you ____ [fill in the blank].
To you, oh Lord, I cried. You
have turned my mourning into dancing, you have taken off my sackcloth and
clothed me with joy!
A common expression for joy
in Scripture is dancing. So put on your dancing shoes, download “Wailing to
Dancing” from Donn Thomas’s CD, Psalms Alive, and dance, dance, dance!
Prayer: Lord I thank you for causing all the
walls in my life to tumble down.
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