David teaches us in this Psalm that God's people will not find exemption from affliction but deliverance through it. David calls God's suffering people to passionate praise and a righteous life, even in the midst of affliction. This Psalm does not exempt the sufferer from trials but proves that God and his goodness will satisfy. Life for us lived in this world inescapably stained by the fall is lived in the midst of suffering, through suffering, but never beyond suffering.
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