How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me.Psalm 13 (NIV)
Advent seems to be a time when God calls us to look unflinchingly into the dark places of the world and of our hearts, making no excuses for its darkness, nor any attempt to illuminate it with our own pale torch-beams of thought. Only trust is enough. Only faith will, ultimately, prove strong enough to see us through. Worship is one of the few things there are that has the depth to express, to make real among us, that faith.
1 comment:
amen and amen after everything has left ,dissapointed, let us down ,rejected us and not worked out properly , and when the Glitter and shine has left the laughter a distant dream away. Or may be everything is blessed and not a worry in the world at the end of evetything HE IS THERE He is always in the midst no matter what or were the situation is He is there The Lord is with us and In Him will I trust amen and amen Irene Taylor
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