🎤 Psalm 102 Song - Day of My Distress

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If only life worked out the way we wanted it to; if only things happened according to our ideals! Instead, we're often faced with challenges, and disappointments which make it hard to keep a positive attitude!

The writer of this Psalm was certainly having a bad day! He lists the many things going wrong in his life: his stricken heart, his burning bones, too wasted to even eat, groaning, thin, alone, unable to sleep, and on top of all of this, he is being taunted by his enemies.

I feel bad for this poor fellow, but it's not really pity. It's more a sympathy, since I go through many of the same feelings from time to time. I think I can relate to what he's going through! I've had days like this myself, and the despair and depression can be immobilizing.

But as he speaks, he turns things around so that instead of focusing on his own pains and distress, he begins to focus on God. He says, God, you're enthroned forever. Your name endures, you will rise up and have compassion. He recognizes God's faithfulness and justice, acknowledges God's power, and asks for God to intercede for him right away.

So this is my challenge, and I hope I can encourage you to do the same: let's not stop in our despair! Let's turn our hearts toward God! Even when I feel too hopeless to pray, I will whisper from my inmost being: God help me! Let's, you and I, acknowledge what we both know to be true and right about God, even when it seems false, even when we're afraid we're being delusional. “Here my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you… The children of your servants shall live secure; their offspring shall be established in your presence.”

Amen

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Prayer to the Eternal King for Help
A prayer of one afflicted, when faint and pleading before the Lord.

1 Hear my prayer, O Lord;
let my cry come to you.
2 Do not hide your face from me
on the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily on the day when I call.
3 For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.
4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread.
5 Because of my loud groaning
my bones cling to my skin.
6 I am like an owl of the wilderness,
like a little owl of the waste places.
7 I lie awake;
I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
8 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who deride me use my name for a curse.
9 For I eat ashes like bread,
and mingle tears with my drink,
10 because of your indignation and anger;
for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
11 My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.
12 But you, O Lord, are enthroned for ever;
your name endures to all generations.
13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to favour it;
the appointed time has come.
14 For your servants hold its stones dear,
and have pity on its dust.
15 The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 For the Lord will build up Zion;
he will appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
and will not despise their prayer.
18 Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
19 that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die;
21 so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem,
22 when peoples gather together,
and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.
23 He has broken my strength in mid-course;
he has shortened my days.
24 ‘O my God,’ I say, ‘do not take me away
at the mid-point of my life,
you whose years endure
throughout all generations.’
25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you endure;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away;
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but you are the same, and your years have no end.
28 The children of your servants shall live secure;
their offspring shall be established in your presence.

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