When We Feel Forgotten

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O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way? How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day?

How long will my enemy have the upper hand?

Turn and answer me, O LORD my God! Restore the light to my eyes, or I will die.

Don't let my enemies gloat, saying, "We have defeated him!" Don't let them rejoice at my downfall.

But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. I will sing to the LORD because he has been so good to me. Psalm 13 (NLT)


I love these words of David. He, who God says is “a man after My own heart” understood what it meant to be deeply sad in his soul.

He felt forgotten. He felt that God no longer saw him. He thought he might die if God didn’t answer.

I get it. I’ve been there. I struggle often with a deep sadness of the soul.

Like David I refuse to stay there.

David prays. He asks God to defeat his enemy. Depression, or a deep sadness of the soul, is an enemy that must be battled. We must pray to God for help in battling this enemy.

Then he reminds himself of truth. And then he chooses to rejoice because God will recue him. He can still sing in the midst of the sadness because God has been good. God is good!

David relies on the truth he already has learned about God. God can be trusted to rescue him even if in the moment he feels forgotten.

David has learned that no matter what life may look like today God can be trusted to show His unfailing love and goodness in the midst of it all.

David relies on truth not emotions. May he be our example in those moments we might feel forgotten and alone.

 

Thank you God for this reminder today that I can trust in Your goodness and unfailing love.

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4 comments:

  1. Sharon. Thanks for visiting me today. Not many people understand David in this way, but you do. We can not pick and choose the Psalms, but must understand he struggled with God and David leaned into God, the beauty is that God did not push back. Love is like that you know?

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    1. Thank you Chris! I often find great comfort in the Psalms when I am descending toward great sadness....

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  2. I'm not sure if my previous comment went through or not, but I really want to let you know how comforted I am by this post. I've struggled all my life with fear, anxiety and depression and am just realizing that I can invite God in. He truly is the Light that the darkness cannot put out.

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    1. YES! Marni! exactly! It took me a long time to realize that but we can invite Him in and He DOES speak light into whatever darkness we might be battling! Thank you for stopping by!

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