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.
This is one of my favorite Psalms, the first time that I encountered it and truly understood it was through a song that we sang at Sanctuary. The beginning of the Psalm the Psalmist is complaining and feeling as if God has forsaken him, which I have related to in some of the more difficult stages of my life. But throughout the course of the Psalm, he realizes that no matter what happens in his life, he will trust in the Lord because God has never forsaken him and has given him everything that is good in his life. It is something that is hard to realize, because in times that are good it is so easy to worship God, but I am trying to always have the same attitude toward worshiping God. No matter how traditional or contemporary a worship service is, I am trying to focus on what really matters - praising my Lord and Savior because the worship is not for my enjoyment, but for the uplifting of the creator.
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