40 INSPIRING Days in Ps-Prov - 23
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40 INSPIRING Days in Psalms & Proverbs
Day 23 | HOW LONG, O LORD?
40 INSPIRING Days in Psalms & Proverbs
Day 23 | HOW LONG, O LORD?
HOW LONG, O LORD?
Psalm 13
“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; Light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, ‘I have prevailed over him,’ Lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.”
In this psalm David begins singing about this familiar triad: himself, God, and his enemies. It seems as though the LORD is absent from the scene, and David starts writing and realizes that he is alone and inadequate to deal with this enemy.
“How long?” is a question he asked four times.
The question of “how long” is common for Christians today, too. We are so used to “instant everything” – TV, cars starting, popcorn, mashed potatoes – that we have largely forgotten how to WAIT for anything.
That famous preacher from the past, Charles Spurgeon, said: “Whenever you look into David’s Psalms, you may somewhere or another see yourselves. You never get into a corner, but you find David in that corner. I think I was never so low that I could not find that David was lower, and I never climbed so high that I could not find that David was up above me, ready to sing his song upon his stringed instrument, even as I could sing mine.”
You can feel the pain in David’s heart, “Will you forget me forever?”
Have you ever felt that way? The world is crushing in on you, and you feel alone and without God?
David’s been there – and he’s gotten through it – and this psalm gives hope that YOU can too.
Prayer: LORD, thank You for being the same yesterday, today, and forever, and never forgetting your children. Amen.
Psalm 13
“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; Light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, ‘I have prevailed over him,’ Lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.”
In this psalm David begins singing about this familiar triad: himself, God, and his enemies. It seems as though the LORD is absent from the scene, and David starts writing and realizes that he is alone and inadequate to deal with this enemy.
“How long?” is a question he asked four times.
The question of “how long” is common for Christians today, too. We are so used to “instant everything” – TV, cars starting, popcorn, mashed potatoes – that we have largely forgotten how to WAIT for anything.
That famous preacher from the past, Charles Spurgeon, said: “Whenever you look into David’s Psalms, you may somewhere or another see yourselves. You never get into a corner, but you find David in that corner. I think I was never so low that I could not find that David was lower, and I never climbed so high that I could not find that David was up above me, ready to sing his song upon his stringed instrument, even as I could sing mine.”
You can feel the pain in David’s heart, “Will you forget me forever?”
Have you ever felt that way? The world is crushing in on you, and you feel alone and without God?
David’s been there – and he’s gotten through it – and this psalm gives hope that YOU can too.
Prayer: LORD, thank You for being the same yesterday, today, and forever, and never forgetting your children. Amen.
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