Inspiration from the Daily Psalm

from Psalm 28

Excerpt

. . .for if you are silent to me,
I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 28:1

Prayer

O Lord, there are times when You are silent, when my prayers seem to bounce of the ceiling, when it feels as if You have gone on vacation . . . or worse. In those times I can feel like those who go down to the Pit: lost, hopeless, defeated.

So help me, dear Lord, in those times when, for Your reasons, You are silent. Help me to trust You, to wait, to be patient. Give me hope when I feel hopeless, strength when I am weak. Remind me that You went down to the Pit on my behalf, so that I might enjoy life with You, now and forever.

Postscript

[Notice] the sad despair [the psalmist] should be in if God slighted him: "If thou be silent to me, and I have not the tokens of thy favour, I am like those that go down into the pit (that is, I am a dead man, lost and undone); if God be not my friend, appear not to me and appear not for me, my hope and my help will have perished.’’ Nothing can be so cutting, so killing, to a gracious soul, as the want of God’s favour and the sense of his displeasure.

       Matthew Henry, Commentary on Psalm 28:1

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