Where is God?
Où est Dieu
?
Quand
Dieu semble loin ou même absent, ce psaume nous pousse à nous souvenir de sa
puissance – et à chercher à comprendre vers où il nous conduit.
Are you
kept awake at night, thinking about the problems and stresses of life, with a
soul that ‘refuses to be comforted’?
The
writer of this psalm turned his thoughts to God, and when reassurance still did
not come, he then pours his frustrated questions into the void where he had
hoped to find peace of mind – has God
forgotten to be merciful?
Where is
God? is a question we all ask, especially when faced with our own suffering or
that of others. When other approaches
fail, the response of the psalmist is finally to remember the power and might
of God - specifically his authority even over the elements as he led his people
to safety through the Red Sea. The
psalm stops there – we are not told whether this contemplation brought the
comfort the writer seeks. But surely a
strategy worth trying – to move from tossing and turning over our own concerns
and ponder instead God’s majesty and his faithfulness to his flock.
As God
led his people through the parted waves, where might he be leading you during
this period of Lent?
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