Savoring the Scripture

I Trust You Even When… Psalm 143 Trust implies more than this, it sees and feels, and leans upon a person, a great, true, living heart of love. So let us ‘trust also in him,’ through all the delays, in spite of all the difficulties, in the face of all the denials, notwithstanding all the seemings, even when we cannot understand the way, and know not the issue; still ‘trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.’ The way will open, the right issue will come, the end will be peace, the cloud will be lifted, and the light of an eternal noonday shall shine at last. Streams in the Desert Earlier in the Psalms, the psalmist beautifully said, “I believed, even when I spoke: ‘I am greatly afflicted’”(116:10). I thought of that verse as I read and studied Psalm 143. Tucked into the middle of this lament psalm, David says, “in you I trust” (143:8). I cling to these examples of saints who, even when they are afflicted and their hardships seem more than they can bear, they choose to believe an...

Loneliness in Suffering Psalm 142 Suffering is a wilderness experience. We feel very much alone and helpless, cut off from others who cannot know how we suffer. We long for someone to come to our aid, be “company” for us, get us out of this. Someone will. Some One will certainly come to our aid. He will be company for us if we’ll let Him. But get us out of it? Not necessarily. Elisabeth Elliot Loneliness. The word itself ushers in a sense of bleakness and desolation. Being without companionship. Feeling cut off from others. Having no meaningful relationships. Or perhaps the loss of someone dear and close leaves an emptiness no one else can fill. Suffering can bring its own sense of loneliness as it can seem, and may even be true, that no one can truly understand what we are experiencing and enduring with all its complexities and intricacies. David, here in Psalm 142, sits in a cave hiding from his enemies, and he says, “there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no ...