For
the recent weeks, I was fetching for ideas on how to beat myself from spiritual
dryness until God chose Mark to deliver the message last Sunday.
I
have been truly struggling for a couple of months and I thought that it was
only me who feels it until Psalm 13 was revealed before my eyes.
Here
how it goes.
Psalm 13
How long, LORD? Will you
forget me forever?
How long will you hide
your face from me?
How long must I wrestle
with my thoughts
And day after day have
sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy
triumph over me?
Look on me and answer,
LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes,
or I will sleep in death,
And my enemy will say, “I
have overcome hime,”
And my foes will rejoice
when I fall.
But I trust in your
unfailing love;
My heart rejoices in
your salvation.
I will sing the LORD’s
praise,
for he has been good to
me.
David is a very good
example to those who are experiencing spiritual setback just like me. He is
honest to the Lord in all his feelings. He expressed what he felt in plain
language with great pain and anguish. In the end, his trust in him was
unfailing and exemplifying in spite of all the misery he was facing. What a
faithful servant he has shown for a faithful God. He kept holding on and he saw
the fruit of his trust and faith to God.
Sometimes we think that God
is away from us. Sometimes we think that he has forsaken us. Sometimes we don’t
feel his power nor a shadow of his presence. But the real thing is, He is never
gone. He is always there, watching us over on how we are going to react, make
decisions and carry out his plans and promises.
For all these days, I thought
that I had the worst case in terms of experiencing spiritual struggle. The Lord
has been good to me. Now, I am finally over it. I have surpassed the test that I
thought I never would.
