Sunday Psalms:

But my enemies say nothing but evil about me. 

"How soon will he die and be forgotten?"

they ask. 

They visit me as if they were my friends, 

but all the while they gather gossip, 

and when they leave, they spread it everywhere. 

All who hate me whisper about me, 

imagining the worst. 

"He has some fatal disease,"

they say. 

"He will never get out of that bed!"

Even my best friend, 

the one I trusted completely, 

the one who shared my food, 

has turned against me. 

Lord, 

have mercy on me. Make me well again, 

so I can pay them back!

Psalms 41:5-10 NLT

Betrayal.

Deceit.

Gossip.

Illness.

Loss of relationship.

Maybe there is something familiar in David's story, maybe something comforting that even something as ugly as betrayal finds it's expression in the Bible.

And guess what?

This psalm doesn't end with forgiveness or some kind of resolution, David gives honest voice to his heart in the moment:

"Lord, 

have mercy on me. Make me well again, 

so I can pay them back!"

He cries out towards God for healing, so that he can get even with those who have betrayed him!

This isn't David's last word, but in that moment it is a searing honesty about his inner world, his response in that moment to illness, betrayal and loss. 

This psalm invites us to be searingly honest about our inner world.

It may not express how we want to be, what we will do, or be our last word, but finding expression for our inner world matters. 

Betrayal and loss and heartache matters. 

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