Psalm 13:1-6 (AMP)
1 HOW LONG will You forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
2 How long must I lay up cares within me and have sorrow in my heart day after day? How long shall my enemy exalt himself over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted, leaned on, and been confident in Your mercy and loving-kindness; my heart shall rejoice and be in high spirits in Your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.
This Psalm contains the emotions of an afflicted person that solemnly desires relief from the Lord.
A lot of us have been at that place where we mourn God’s absence and the triumph of his enemies in our lives, we pray for relief from afflictions and hope we’ll be remembered before we are consumed and it would seem David knew the feeling very well, going by verse 1.
I have the arrogant confidence of stating that “God doesn’t forget anything or anyone,” but circumstances may cause us to sometimes think otherwise.
You might be going through a storm right now and like David, asking why the Lord seems to have forgotten you, think how Paul would have felt at the shipwreck voyage to Italy in Acts 27 but the Lord assured him in Vs 23-25, just as He assures us all today that we are not forgotten.
Remember that beyond every storm is a silver lining, so to see that lining you must go through the storm to come out on the other side.
I was there once and was wondering why the Lord was silent but His response to me, which I didn’t want to hear then, was “you are in the storm, I am not, I am all around the storm and waiting for you on the other side but you must keep moving to get to the other side and according to 2 Corinthians 12:9, my grace is sufficient for you to come through.” At that time, I didn’t like or accepted that response but looking back, I am grateful that the Lord allows us to go through some things by ourselves but we’re never alone. So, no, you have not been forgotten.
Paul said it shall be even as it had been told him, as the Lord promised. What has the Lord told you regarding your situation, circumstance, trial, your child, marriage, husband, wife, finances, health, and job? Have you forgotten? He hasn’t! and He won’t!
Cry to the Lord, keep calling and crying and in time He’ll answer you according to Psalm 27:7. Keep pressing in prayer, His ears are attentive to your voice in Psalm 130:2. He is listening and taking note of your asking and will do what you’re asking, see Numbers 14:28.
All kinds of storms will arise to afflict us for many reasons, but they too shall pass and the pain is forgotten, every night-time experience looks bleak when focused on, instead, focus on what God told you and morning will soon come with its joy according to Psalm 30:5.
According to Psalm 34:19, the Lord will surely deliver us from every trial-He will not forget us.
When you come to a roadblock in life and can see no way out, tears come, the heart becomes heavy with pain and fear, we will almost want to give up because we think the Lord has forgotten us since He didn’t deliver us as fast as we’d like. God has not forgotten you-cry out to Him.
Don’t throw away your confidence in the Lord, He will reward the pain, patience and faith, says Hebrews 10:35. The Lord has not forgotten you, He remembers you, He will strengthen you until His covenanted appointed time.
Shalom