Leviticus 14, Mark 13: 1-31, Psalm 38: 12-22
Psalm 38: 21-22 (ESV)
“Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me! Make
haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!”
In verses 21 through 22, we read of David’s anguish as he
talks to God. David was suffering pain from a sin he committee against God. Biblical
scholars cannot agree on what event in David’s life made him write this psalm,
only that in Psalm 38 we know that David was feeling God’s displeasure with him.
I remember reading these verses when I was in perhaps similar circumstances to David,
and I was wondering if God had forsaken me because of my sinful life. I know
the feeling of wanting to feel God’s presence when I pray, and how important it
was to me especially when I was in pain. I just wanted God to comfort me and by
feeling his presence, I felt that God was telling me “don’t worry, everything
will be okay.” Not feeling God’s presence is the depths of my misery was
horrible and I let myself feel so abandoned by God. I didn’t have David’s faith
to feel faithful to God even when I felt no sense of his presence in my life.
Readings the psalms can be a good reminder to be faithful to God because we
need only read about the trials that David went through in his life, and wonder
at his continued faithfulness to God. David was always faithful to God, no
matter what happened in life.
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