Will You Forget Me Forever?

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.

Psalm 13:1-6

The first time we see a baby we cry. When we learn that the baby is normal, we cry. When we learn that he will never open his eyes, we cry. When babies die we know that they will not open their eyes until they are in the arms of Jesus,

In our deepest pain, we turn to the songs of David because he writes out of his own grief. “How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day we have sorrow in my heart?” “Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death.” Yet David, in the Bible, could give his biggest questions to God. “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.”

Only God can bring ultimate significance to our most tragic events.

Our Daily Bread – November 3, 2017