“How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
having sorrow in my heart daily?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God;
enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
lest my enemy say, ‘I have prevailed against him’;
lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
“But I have trusted in Your mercy;
my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt
bountifully with me.”
Psalm 13 (NKJV)
In this psalm, David is again crying out to God for deliverance from his enemy, perhaps Saul. We likely don’t have physical enemies like David did, people who pursue us and try to take our lives. But we do have spiritual enemies (e.g., Ephesians 6:10-12). And our flesh, our old nature and our besetting sins are enemies that war against us as well.
God deals bountifully with us when we trust in Him.
Even during days of darkness, our hearts rejoice when we remember His
salvation. Even when He seems distant, He will comfort us with His grace and
mercy.
My
Hope is Built on Nothing Less
“My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus’
blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean
on Jesus’ name.
When darkness veils His lovely
face, I rest on His unchanging grace; in every high and stormy gale, my anchor
holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
support me in the whelming flood; when all around my soul gives way, He then is
all my hope and stay.”
Lyrics by Edward Mote (1797-1874)
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