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(This piece was originally posted back in the fall of 2014, after in one weekend I was fired suddenly/seemingly unfairly and then my best childhood friend died after childbirth. These ponderings seem worth revisiting. I hope they encourage your heart today if you are in the midst of your own place of sorrow and pain.)
Tragedy. Pain. Sorrow. Loss.
Questions. Questioning.
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?
Fist in the air. Why, God?
Where are You? Why this? Why now? Why her? Why them? Why me?
A heart wanting to curse. To turn away.
So many questions. Unanswered.
“Curse God and die!” ~ Job’s wife (Job 2:9).
Silence.
Yet there is a whisper of Hope. A thread of Hope. An anchor of Hope.
I have this realization:
If one turns away from Him, then there is absolutely nothing, no one left to cling to.
He truly is our Only Hope.
And so we cling. With our last prayer, our last breath, we hold on to Him.
Look on me and answer, O Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But in the end, just clinging in belief is not enough.
Even the demons believe . . . and curse.
We must believe . . . and worship.
We do not know the answers to “why?” but still we are compelled to worship.
Simply because He is worthy, we choose to glorify Him.
In sorrow and in pain, somehow and supernaturally, our hearts overflow with adoration.
Simply because He is God and we are not.
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.
to curse . . . or . . . to worship
There are only two possible responses to a Holy and Sovereign God.
There are only two possible responses to a Holy and Sovereign God.
// read more thoughts on worshiping because He Is God in God Stands Alone //
