Psalm 13

Impatience.  


We want deliverance NOW.  We want to have the answers NOW.  We want to be rescued NOW.   We want to see the wicked judged NOW.

But God's timing isn't our own.  We are finite, and usually can't comprehend anything beyond what is directly in front of us at any given time.  But God is infinite, and knows no boundaries of time or space.  He knows the past, present and future.

David's cry here is one of desperation it seems.  And perhaps impatience with God?  He has expressed over and over his trust in God as his refuge and deliverer.  He knows that what God has said He will do.  But sometimes our finite minds just don't cooperate with what we know and believe to be true, and we get into these desperate emotions.

He feels like God has forgotten him.  He sounds depressed and alone.  It seems that the enemy is winning.

But in these feelings....David doesn't grow bitter and arrogant toward God and turn from Him.   No, he runs to Him in prayer!  He asks God to relieve his misery.....to lighten up his eyes, and rescue him from this present misery.

And again.....he expresses his unwavering trust and confidence in God's steadfast love.  It isn't a wishy-washy kind of thing....waxing and waning like we know.  But everlasting.  Strong.  The same forever.

Then the Psalm ends with praise for all that God has already done, and , I believe, confidence in that God will yet deliver him from the present trouble.

Help my faith, Oh Lord.   And help me to trust you so fully that I know You will do what you have said You will do.  Let me rest in the refuge that You provide, and look to the end.....being with You forever with a new body, that isn't given to such great fluctuations of highs and lows.