Woe!

Pastor Phil spoke on Sunday morning on Psalm 13, which sounds like this:

1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; 4 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 to the LORD, for he has been good to me.

He was talking about our reaction to trouble and hardship. I regret that I don't remember some of his key points (I hope he's not reading), but something caught my ear. The first four verses consist of David's pleas to God, while the last two verses talk about the trust and the hope that David clings to. An interesting dichotomy, to be sure. I found it encouraging to read that while David was really bummed out about his circumstances, he still had the faith that God would see him through.