An Abrupt Change!

Jo Black June 29, 2026 0 0

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Psalm 13 (NIV-UK)

1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me for ever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?
2 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?

3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
    Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, ‘I have overcome him,’
    and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
    my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
    for he has been good to me.

The Psalms are rarely more relatable than when they hard-pivot! While we would all like to say that we are steady and sturdy come what may, our ever changing circumstances can all too often drive us to our despair, producing cries not unlike David here in the first four verses of this psalm.

Notice that the sudden shift comes not when David’s troubles are lifted, but when he remembers who he is crying to and makes the choice to hold onto that. The Lord’s steadiness in word and character supercedes all the turmoil and allows David to take his foot off the gas pedal of worry and focus on the one who has set the journey.

It is a mark of the depth of his relationship with God that it only takes him four verses to remember and shift gears. My own melancholy can easily cover a lot more ground before the ‘but God’ kicks in and I fix my eyes back on His commanded and accompanied road ahead rather than the rear view. Thankfully He is the one who faithfully reminds His people who He is through countless answered prayers, His living and active Word and the Holy Spirit who time and again reminds us that He hears our heartache and that God is already on the move!

Prayer:

Precious Jesus

I am totally lost. But I know you are the one who makes a way.

I have no “village” to do life with. But I have heard you promise that you will never forsake me.

I feel like my heart is breaking. But since you are the one who made it, I know you can seal the faultlines with your love.

I am floundering in this mess. But the ending is already written through you and it’s so so good.

Thank you that you can bring a ‘but’ to my every lament so I can begin to learn to start with you in every circumstance rather than needing to continually handbrake turn my way through life!  Amen