Good Morning Friends,
“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from
me? How long must I wrestle with my
thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, O Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, ‘I
have overcome him,’ and my foes will rejoice when I fall.” (Psalm 13:1-4)
Sometimes life can be so unfair. Sometimes it seems like the Lord has
forgotten us and ignores our cries for help.
Sometimes it is about what we see in our own
lives that we do not like. David said he
wrestled with his thoughts. His thoughts
were not ones that he liked. He wanted
to see them change, but change didn’t seem to come. He cried and prayed, but God didn’t come to
his rescue.
Sometimes it is about what others do to us –
our enemies. David had enemies who were
more clearly enemies than most of us have.
His enemies brought armies against him in an attempt to take over his
kingdom. His enemies brought real
weapons with the intent of killing him.
Most of us don’t have enemies of that sort. In fact, most of us would hesitate to call
anyone our enemy. But there are those in
our lives who trouble us: a friend we
are not getting along with, a boss who seems to be against us, a co-worker who
snubs us or makes our work harder, a spouse who is unreasonable, parents who
don’t understand. We pray about these
situations and seek God’s help, but often we don’t see anything that God does
to help. The situation remains the same
and no change comes.
Where is God and why doesn’t He do something
in response to our prayers? That was
David’s question. It’s been my question
and your question from time to time, too.
And David’s answer: “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart
rejoices in your salvation. I will sing
to the Lord, for he has been good to me.” (Psalm 13:5-6)
David’s answer was to say, “I don’t
understand, but I’ll trust You, Lord.”
And the reason David was willing to trust the Lord when He seemed silent
was because of what God had already done for him. There was no doubt about his salvation and if
God had come to his ultimate rescue, then he would choose to trust Him with the
smaller problems of this life, even when God’s answers or God’s timing weren’t
what he wanted them to be.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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