When You Feel FORGOTTEN By God S30e175

Pro tip: when you feel "forgotten by God" you will be feeling like it will be forever. Just ask David, as he works through an (inaccurate) season recorded in Psalm 13. He feels like God is hiding His face forever. He is challenged on that day: what do you do on the day when you "cannot find God" 

He does the right thing and asks that the Lord would give light to his eyes: let me see this situation clearly; with the light of insight that only comes from You. Then with this renewed understanding, he then does the very difficult work of turning his feet and actions in a certain direction.

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When You Feel FORGOTTEN By God S30e175

124 When you feel like your are forgotten forever.

Ps 13:1 asks from David: 1    How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? 

How long will you hide your face from me? feel like God’s face is hidden

Not hidden in, which is a comforting, protected concept, 

but hidden FROM the Lord.  That is right, David, our knucklehead spiritual hero feels separated from God, 

Therefore, on the day when you find that you cannot find God…

       Remember, you are not the first. You are not the Last.

       You have an opportunity, just like David here, to do this right:

              Get it off your chest and then get going. But not yet done

2    How long must I take counsel in my soul

and have sorrow in my heart all the day? 

       How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 

I just don’t feel you at all.

I go for a visit in my soul, and the only person I note there is MYSELF

Just lonely little ol’ me taking counsel there.

A place that You Lord have typically occupied WITH ME is now  occupied by ONLY ME. 

I am alone in my soul

Plus: I feel sad. I have sorrow in my heart all the day.

3    Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;

light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, 

Light up my eyes

This is something the Lord does.

Ps 19:           the commandment of the Lord is pure, 

enlightening the eyes; 

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His Word enlightens the eyes

What a great prayer Pr 29:13 13     The poor man and the oppressor meet together; 

the Lord gives light to the eyes of both. 

Even the new testament echos this is Eph1: may (God) give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you,

:give light to our eyes, enlighten our understanding.Light up our eyes with history; with presence and with the wisdom for the future.

Give light to those I am in conflict with

May the Lord give light to have ME see the other side and for them to have the light to see my side.

Think about the eyes of your heart and what you might ask of them.

         Eyes without light are of little use

         Call for eyes and for light from God for them to work.

         YYou give eyes, You give light. We need both.

For David, he gets lIGHT as so often he does as the psalm goes on

There is nothing like WRITING a song, singing a song. Getting melody and ideas in a great soup of creativity, to then write it down.

Not an immediate process, for me days weeks and months.

I wonder how long the Lord took to give David light to his eyes:

This psalm so far, is not THEOLOGICALLY correct. David is not Forgotten. Hidden from. Alone. Not ultimately conquered. We all know how this actually ends.

What David is,however,  is feeling all of it.

on the day when you find that you cannot find God…cry out TO HIM. Get it off your chest and then get going.

5  But I have trusted in your steadfast love; 

my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 

6    I will sing to the Lord,

because he has dealt bountifully with me. 

This is 50 seconds of frustration to finding His way back

    Feeling like a wreck to resoration

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Feeling like a wreck to resoration

    I’m a mess to I got stuff to do here: YOU are the LORD

I’m going to do some hard spiritual work of where I am placing the weightof my effort and concern.

    We can get stuck in wallowing of our feelings

          Or WORSHIP

We can feel of Hidden from God or remember the harvest of His bounty

          Note to self: the harvest was of me. He put me into His family by no particular righteousness of my own.

Rejoice in what He has done for me in salvation.

    Above my paygrade. Impossible to do for myself.

Trust in your steadfast love.

    Hey, I am loved. I am with a safe Person. Solid. Steadfast

Sing to the Lord  and remember the bountiful treatment that I didn’t deserve

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Little engine that could: Turns the whole train around from emotional feelings to spiritual fact.

1    How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? 

How long will you hide your face from me? 

2    How long must I take counsel in my soul

and have sorrow in my heart all the day? 

       How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 

3    Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;

light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, 

4    lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” 

lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. 

5    But I have trusted in your steadfast love; 

my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 

6    I will sing to the Lord,

because he has dealt bountifully with me. 

When you feel forgotten by God, don’t forget Ps 13

Don’t forget to remember His steadfast love and to trust and sing and remember