My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
David's honesty of emotions is a reassuring comfort to me. God's children face troubles that sometimes darken their perception of God's nearness, but David provides me with a model for my prayers in those gloomy circumstances. "They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain" (Shakespeare). I hope to be an example to the world around me of how the saints of God can remain faithful in times of stress or affliction.
Verse 24...
For He has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and He has not hidden His face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to Him.
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