Thursday
Psalm 10.1 “Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?”
Some of our most desperate prayers end in a question mark. ‘Why’ always has the sound of urgency when it is a prayer. Each of us have times when God seems so far off, and silent. The Psalm poet is blunt and up front about this, and shows us how human it is to complain. To ask God why, is not a lack of faith or a failure of trust. On the contrary, our faith is made evident and audible exactly as we ask our urgent questions of the One whom we call Lord. In our hardest experiences of loss, confusion, depression, anxiety, guilt or whatever, there is a recurring sense that God is absent and silent. But remember, however abandoned we may feel, that ringing promise still holds: “Nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” That truth depends on God’s faithfulness, not our faith.
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