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Sunday Psalms

How long, Lord? 
Will you 
forget me forever? 
How long 
will you 
hide your face from me? 
How long 
will I 
store up anxious concerns within me, agony in my mind every day? 
How long 
will my 
enemy dominate me? 

Consider me and answer, Lord my God. 
Restore brightness to my eyes; 
otherwise, I will sleep in death. 
My enemy will say, 
"I have triumphed over him,"
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

But I 
have trusted 
in your faithful love; 
my heart 
will rejoice 
in your deliverance. 
I will sing 
to the Lord
because he 
has treated me generously.
Psalms 13:1-6 CSB

David brings his searching questions to God. Lays them all out. 
If we need to find voice for our heartache and questions, David has given us a start place here. If we can't pray our own questions, we can use his. 
Write them down like he did.
And then he's pretty clear about what he needs. 
It's OK to tell God what's going on for us. 
What's really going on.
And then David chooses to respond to his own lament with faith and trust and hope, even while his questions may remain unanswered. 
Maybe today that's the part of this Psalm, this song that we can choose to sing anyway, that we choose to trust in His faithful love. 
What an amazing expression of David's heart, of God's love and graciousness, and permission for us to cry out, to write our songs to God today. David's song is accepted by God because he is accepted. 
#psalms
#psalm13
#openheart
#accepted
#dearlyloved

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