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Psalm 13
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.
Have you ever felt like God is ignoring you? Are you tired of unanswered prayer? Do you feel God has abandoned you in your situation? When this happens you are in good company. David, the man whom God called "a man after my own heart" felt these things too.
In spite of David's repeated prayers, God seemed unavailable. Have you ever beed there? You desperately call out to God, but He seems to have disappeared. Psalm 13 reveals to us a pattern of what to do.
David calls out to God. It is so easy to turn away from God when you feel ignored. In times like these the world seems to offer better solutions and quicker answers. The key is to be honest with God, and cry out to him.
Finally after being very blunt with God, he ends with reaffirming his trust in God's Love. Although his situation has not changed, he goes on singing and remembering that God has been good to him even though he might not feel it right now. What has changed then? His focus and his mindset.
After you have cried out in honesty to God, remind yourself of his unfailing love. "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends."
John 15:13
“I asked for strength that I might achieve; He made me weak that I might obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things; I was given grace that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I received nothing that I asked for, all that I hoped for. My prayer was answered, I was most blessed.”
Pete Greig - God on Mute