Thanksgiving When You Don't Feel Like It
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Can despair and trust live together. They do, with a life of deep faith. That is what this Psalm is all about.
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 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?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
The Psalm consists of … three groups of decreasing magnitude. A long deep sigh is followed, as from a relieved breast, by an already much more gentle and half calm prayer; and this again by the believing joy which anticipates the certainty of being answered. This song as it were casts up constantly lessening waves, until it becomes still as the sea when smooth as a mirror, and the only motion discernible at last is that of the joyous ripple of calm repose-Delitzsch
Anguish of soul. Deep faith.
How Long?
How Long?
How Long?
How Long?
.Psalm 13.1-2
Psalm 13:1–2 (ESV)
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 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?
Anguish of soul. Deep faith
Look
Answer
Give Light
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
3 Take a good look at me, God, my God; I want to look life in the eye,
Anguish of soul. Deep faith
Thanksgiving When You Don’t Feel Like It
Thanksgiving When You Don’t Feel Like It
Singing in the rain.
Look at Psalm 13.5-6
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
How Long- vs. 1&2
Give Me Light!-vs 3-4
Let Me Sing-vs.5-6
How Long- vs. 1&2
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 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?
Give Me Light!-vs 3-4
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
Let Me Sing-vs.5-6
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
how long?
how long?
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 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?
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David saw God at the source of his trouble at the first- “Will You Forget me forever?”
The experience of divine alienation is unrelated to his being a sinner. There is no confession of sin, no contrition, and no recognition of personal guilt that keeps God’s blessing away from the psalmist.
Hide Your Face From me- alienation, curse…the Psalmist is alone, suffering in loneliness and anguish… where is protection, grace, and peace God promised?
The smallest problem takes on greater significance. The psalmist is disturbed in his deepest being by God’s lack of interest, by the adversaries (adversities), and by his own feelings.
give me light
give me light
prayer
Psalm 13:3–4 (ESV)
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, 4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
Consider
answer
light up my eyes
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
The psalmist’s prayer contains an urgent appeal for God’s covenant favor. If he were to be vexed and overcome by “death,” the enemies would have cause to gloat (vv. 3–4; cf. 35:19–21; 38:16–17). Their joy expressed not only pleasure in the fall of the godly but also in God’s failure to be faithful to his covenant promises
laughing at people when they fall down.... cruel
His thought is dominated by one anxiety only, the anxiety that he might waver in his faith and lose confidence in God and so might provide for his adversaries the opportunity of gaining an easy victory
let me sing!
let me sing!
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
Perhaps he would sing after the trial had left, but the time of trial would write the tune and the lyrics.
Salvation” (yešûāh see 3:2) signifies the whole well-being of God’s child. He needs the assurance that God cares (v. 1), as well as the experience of victory over enemy and the adverse circumstances (vv. 2, 4). He also needs the healing in his thoughts of anguish and self-pity (v. 2). God’s “salvation” takes care of all his needs. He will rejoice in the Lord when God shows his fatherly care. “For he has been good [gāmal] to me” (v. 6).
Submission In Suffering While Singing In Salvation
Submission In Suffering While Singing In Salvation
Bad things happen to good people- even God’s people.
