When You Feel like God Has Forgotten You (1 of 6)
Series: Summer Psalms
Jim Perdue
Psalm 13:1-6
Intro/Attention
Today, I'm beginning a brand new sermons series entitled Summer Psalms. Over the next few weeks, we'll be studying a few selected chapters in the book of Psalms. I love the Psalms. It's one of my favorite books in the Old Testament and in the entire Bible. There are cries of despair, songs of hope, prayers of confession, and glimpses into the depths of our hearts. Today, from Psalm 13, I'm preaching on the subject, When You Feel Like God Has Forgotten You. READ TEXT
In Psalm 12 David feels himself to be alone, in the sense that godly or faithful persons seem to have disappeared. He says, ''the godly one is gone...the faithful have vanished...'' (ON SCREEN) This is bad enough, of course. If we feel alone in any trying situation, we feel desperate. But when we read Psalm 13, we find that David feels abandoned now not only by godly or faithful men, but even by God Himself! Can anything be worse than that?
I have two initial thoughts for when you feel like God has forgotten you. Frist, the feeling of abandonment is far more common than you think. Many people feel abandoned-by others, first, but ultimately also by God. Second, although this is a common problem, Christians don't talk about this very much. Maybe because we have been taught that Christians are not to experience such things, that we are only to have ''life more abundantly'' or to ''live victoriously.'' *French atheist Voltaire once said, ''I am abandoned by God and man.'' We are not surprised to hear an unbeliever say that. But if any of us should admit to such feelings, many of our friends would look suspiciously at us, shake their heads, and wonder whether we are Christians.*
How good then to find that David does talk about it! David is a giant in Scripture, a ''man after [God's] own heart.'' Yet described here is a time when David felt that God had left him entirely. And ...
Series: Summer Psalms
Jim Perdue
Psalm 13:1-6
Intro/Attention
Today, I'm beginning a brand new sermons series entitled Summer Psalms. Over the next few weeks, we'll be studying a few selected chapters in the book of Psalms. I love the Psalms. It's one of my favorite books in the Old Testament and in the entire Bible. There are cries of despair, songs of hope, prayers of confession, and glimpses into the depths of our hearts. Today, from Psalm 13, I'm preaching on the subject, When You Feel Like God Has Forgotten You. READ TEXT
In Psalm 12 David feels himself to be alone, in the sense that godly or faithful persons seem to have disappeared. He says, ''the godly one is gone...the faithful have vanished...'' (ON SCREEN) This is bad enough, of course. If we feel alone in any trying situation, we feel desperate. But when we read Psalm 13, we find that David feels abandoned now not only by godly or faithful men, but even by God Himself! Can anything be worse than that?
I have two initial thoughts for when you feel like God has forgotten you. Frist, the feeling of abandonment is far more common than you think. Many people feel abandoned-by others, first, but ultimately also by God. Second, although this is a common problem, Christians don't talk about this very much. Maybe because we have been taught that Christians are not to experience such things, that we are only to have ''life more abundantly'' or to ''live victoriously.'' *French atheist Voltaire once said, ''I am abandoned by God and man.'' We are not surprised to hear an unbeliever say that. But if any of us should admit to such feelings, many of our friends would look suspiciously at us, shake their heads, and wonder whether we are Christians.*
How good then to find that David does talk about it! David is a giant in Scripture, a ''man after [God's] own heart.'' Yet described here is a time when David felt that God had left him entirely. And ...
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