Ps 142 1"I cry aloud to the LORD" ;The Psalmist is teaching that we must know ourselves and know God. If we are to know ourselves then we must talk to God about what we like and dislike. Our first inclination is to go to our best friend to complain. We think that God does not like us to complain. So we spend a lot of wasted time complaining to another person who is not able to do anything for us. We learn that even when we complain no one ever changes. But God is not happy when we go to someone else to complain. You see God wants us to be confident by telling Him every little thing that bothers us. God does not like to withhold something we need that help us be confident. So the Psalmist sounds the bell every time he feels the smallest pain. If we do not care about our own feelings then God is not obliged to give us what we need. So we show love to ourselves the more we complain to God.The more we complain to God the more we want to be treated good. God wants to teach us about ourselves.  2I pour out my complaint before him; before him I tell my trouble.God wants us to come to Him.

 The truth is that if we know ourselves then we will know what we like. And God has made us to be successful by being better than anyone else who is in our occupation. So we know what must be done in order for us to live a life of success. If we had complete control of the world then we could set up the situation and fulfill our desires. It is hard for us to be fully fulfilled in what we are good at. Dont you think that God knows what are the obstacles? God is not obligated to remove the obstacles or create the path to our greatest fulfillment. He wants us to complain and demand that He honor our petition. He wants us to ask him as if no one else existed.  4Look to my right and see; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life".God wants to be the only one we trust who really cares about us. In order for us to grow in self knowledge we must take the smallest complaints to God. And in order for us to be confident in ourselves we must talk to God as the only person we trust in this world. ⁵ I cry to you, O LORD ; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."