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"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" These famous words from the cross of Jesus first find themselves here in chapter 22 of Psalms. They have been the cry of many a people throughout time. Times when all hope seemed lost and death seemed inevitable. It feels like a cry of hopelessness, yet we never cry out to those we know cannot help us. This is a cry of desperation and it is a cry of humanity.
If we really look a that the world in all its ugliness then we can easily wonder why God has left us in this mess. It is why some have walked away from God, yet without a God, there is no ugliness, no evil, no wrong, no right, just death. For us to see ugliness there must be a God and we are left either to cry out to him, deny him, or blame him. Jesus in the midst of his greatest suffering cried out to him. What he had known previous to this point was that this was his destiny and his greatest victory. At this point on the cross, he felt alone and cried out to the only one who could make everything right and he did. God didn't at that moment, but a short time later when Jesus gave up his life, the path to complete victory opened.
This chapter continues recounting God's past faithfulness, the psalmist current situation, the promise of praise, then at the end, it shows faith in God.
Perhaps this is a path to recovering faith:
1. Cry out
2. Remember God's character
3. Recount your problems
4. offer praise
5. faith is restored.
Not a promise this will work every time, but I believe it can help.
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