Ps 13 1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
When we are saved we are translated into the kingdom of God where He treats us like the ascended Christ. We have come into His house after wandering in the streets. Christ is now our brother and our Father is the judge of the entire world. When we were wandering in the streets we were subject to abuse .But now we are safe in the house of God. The danger that we face is outside of the house.So the Psalmist is always talking to God within the safety of the house.
The Psalmist compares this new relationship with Adam and Eves fellowship in the garden. Adam and Eve shared their deepest desires with God. There was no opposition in fellowship with God. They desired perfectly what God desired. But because we are being opposed by sin and corruption we can never have perfect unity with Gods desires. Even tho we drew distant from Gods desires yet God knows that we are unable to experience the same unity that was in the garden. Because of sin we were left to be alone. God had to search for us. Now God sees us struggle with our sinfulness and weakness and He has compassion on us.
The relationship between God and man before the fall was very simple. Because we did not experience pain and weakness we were able to relate by simply responding by completely understanding Gods communication. But now we experience the inability to communicate on the same level of the first man. Because we experience evil we are prone to attribute it to God.If our physical strength and spiritual understanding were able to handle Gods communication like the first man then we would not be tempted to accuse God. So God understands our struggle since He made us. God looks on us now with pity.
This is why God has given us the gift of drawing close to Him by describing our terrible experience. So when the Psalmist as How long? he is using the gift to move God. God knows it is impossible for us to please Him like Adam did. This means that all of the neurotic communication is coming from our side of the relationship. When we read the Psalms we see a man who is describing his life that is not like what we would say to other people. We read his descriptions of depression, neurosis,and anger. Why would God allow us to describe the terrible experiences of this life? God could heal us and get us going again. The reason is because we all are headed to in the direction of increasing our struggles with pain and uncertainty. We can only escape when we go to heaven.
So God has given us a gift of describing our experience to Him. The Psalmist says that we struggle with corruption by wrestling with out thoughts and dealing with a sorrowful heart . We go from one danger to another in this world. God is drawn to us when we pour our hearts out to him in describing our condition. God knows that it is impossible for us to relate to him in the same way we were created to in the garden. God is not gonna make us suffer alone. When we want to experience God drawing near to us we must be honest with Him when we seek Him.
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