DAY 3 | God, Where Are You?
Scripture: Psalm 22:1-2, 9-11
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb
and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.
I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
Do not stay so far from me,
for trouble is near,
and no one else can help me.
[ Read the full psalm at Psalm 22 ]
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb
and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.
I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
Do not stay so far from me,
for trouble is near,
and no one else can help me.
[ Read the full psalm at Psalm 22 ]
Framing:
David wrote these words from a place of profound abandonment. Jesus prayed them from the cross. The fact that this prayer is in Scripture tells us something important: feeling forsaken is not the same as being forsaken.
Pray:
If you are in a season where God feels far away, pray these words as your own.
Don't rush to the resolution.
Stay in the honesty of the first half — and let that itself be your prayer today.
Don't rush to the resolution.
Stay in the honesty of the first half — and let that itself be your prayer today.
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