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The Bible I am looking at now has a caption* above chapter 13: "A prayer of distress and faith." It perfectly describes the psalm. There are times in our lives where we probably utter a prayer exactly like this. A prayer that says everything is going wrong, but I am still going to trust God. This is not a pray of defeat though. This is a pray of defiance. It is the prayer of someone who knows that faith in God has greater rewards than anything we can see. Yet it is a prayer for help.
This prayer reminds me of the three Hebrew children who stand before the king and say "God is more than able to save us, but if not we will not bow" (Daniel 3:17-18 my own paraphrase).
There are times when we may feel forgotten and forsaken but we aren't we need to keep trusting even when things don't go right. We don't see the whole story, God does and he will reward us even if it isn't in this life. This faith may not be the defiant kind which stands up to the king, but if it holds on to God in weakness than it will prevail. In fact, it may be the stronger faith, though it looks weaker.
Keep holding on.
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*Captions are added by the publisher of this Bible to help the reader find or understand the content in a portion of the Bible. They are not a part of the original text but can be useful.
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