Week 7: Psalm 43

Psalm 43

Winter is daunting. Perhaps what makes it so difficult is the ongoing darkness. In the Pacific Northwest, people brace themselves for the seasonal depression, because unlike other areas in the United States, even the daylight is consumed with a hue of gray and the incessant drizzle of rain. 

Like certain geographic locations, perhaps the landscape of your heart is experiencing the dark and damp of a season. The cold winds are blowing through loss and grief. The chill of disappointment and despair linger in your soul, and you are longing to see the first buds of spring. You desire to see all that appears wrong to be made right— to be restored. 

In Psalm 43, your voice is not far behind the psalmist as he cries out for God's vindication. The psalmist longs for God to make right what is wrong, and he even goes as far as to cry out, “Why have you rejected me?” (vs 2) . But it is here—in the depth of despair, longing, grief, and darkness that the psalmist actually comes into alignment with God's overall purpose in His world: to restore all things back to Himself. As the psalmist cries out to God for right judgment - and vindication - he is acknowledging that it is only God who has the power to do this… and so he must wait for God to act. 

The psalm says in verse 3, “Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me.”

Despite the circumstances, where do you need God to shine His light and truth into your heart and mind? What are the things you are asking Him to restore in your life?

“Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.”

-Cortney Rae