My
only food – my tears – all day and all night, all while they humiliate me;
taunt me saying, “Where is your God, now?” All day long they laugh and scoff.
(Psalm 42:3)
The context of this writer’s panting for God
is in a place (among enemies), at a time (in exile from the throne), that other
people are challenging David for answers. They are asking him to explain God;
to defend his trust in a seeming powerless, absent deity. Should David ad-lib?
Should he try to vindicate himself? Or God? Not this believer. He would simply,
patiently, humbly continue to seek God’s presence and comfort.
How about you? Dark days come. God seems to
have left you at the moment you need Him most. Will you continue to pursue Jesus,
and only Him, when the answers come slowly, while the personal costs rise, and
while others laugh at you and make fun of you and your God? Or, will you lose
patience with the Lord, and find the world’s most effective way to achieve the
result that you think is appropriate? It is at this time of struggle, when life
comes down to these simple questions, that you will know if you believe.
Persevere in faith. Pursue God’s presence
until He acts. Wait on the Lord.
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