Dr. Sam Storms, of Enjoying God Ministries, says of Psalm 13:
Depression is an ugly word, and difficult to define. We’ve all faced it, some worse than others. Even if we don’t understand it, we know what it feels like. The confidence that God is behind you has vanished. The courage to face anything life might throw in your path has given way to the horrifying suspicion that God has forgotten who and where you are.
Where is he now when you need him most? Where is he when your life is enveloped in darkness and you can’t find the light switch?
David was no stranger to depression. Listen to his anguished cry. Perhaps you may find in him a soul-mate.
“How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, ‘I have prevailed over him,’ lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken” (vv. 1-4).
Although it’s painful to read of someone suffering like this, I’m also encouraged by it. It tells me that the Bible is going to deal with me where I live, that I don’t have to pretend everything is o.k. when it’s not. I find hope in the fact that “there is no attempt in Scripture to whitewash the anguish of God’s people when they undergo suffering. They argue with God, they complain to God, they weep before God. Theirs is not a faith that leads to dry-eyed stoicism, but a faith so robust it wrestles with God” (Carson, How Long, O Lord? 73).
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