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All right, guys, let's buckle up for a depressing week, because we're going to be covering the Psalms of Lament. All right, guys, let's buckle up for a depressing week, because we're going to be covering the Psalms of Lament. Okay, I know you've been waiting your entire life for this moment, right, but I'm just going to go ahead and admit to you right from the jump that, for whatever reason, I am drawn more towards the darker and sadder side of things. God put me on this planet to equip men to push back darkness men like you to push back darkness and that's what we do day in and day out at Undaunted Life. So I reckon it makes sense that I spend a good deal of time being familiar with darkness so I can recognize it when I experience it. But here's what I love about the lament psalms that we see in the Old Testament. They're incredibly raw and honest. These psalms express grief and sorrow and distress and duress, but they very often culminate in a hunger for, and a trust in, our holy, mighty, powerful and loving God. So we're going to look at five different psalms of lament this week.

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Today we're going to hit Psalm 13. I'll read it here in its entirety To the choir master, a psalm of David. How long, o Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long? Verse 2. Guys, can you see why I like the Psalms of Lament so much? I mean, can you not feel the unbelievable, unconcealed emotion here from David?

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I actually love this comment from Augustine concerning the second verse. How long shall I place counsel in my soul? There is no need of counsel, but in adversity, therefore, how long shall I place counsel in my soul is, as if it were, said, how long shall I be in adversity? So here, at the beginning of Psalm 13, david is anguished because he is experiencing adversity. That should be a relief of Psalm 13,. David is anguished because he is experiencing adversity. That should be a relief to all of us that find ourselves up against it at times, because if God saw David through this, would he not still do the same for us?

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The first four verses are just wrought with anguish and distress, but then the turn Verse 5, dress, but then the turn Verse 5. But I have trusted. But I have trusted In what? In my ability to pull myself up by my bootstraps? Nope, in my resilience reserves that I have built up over time, heh. But I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me Not me, but he. We'll wrap up today with another comment from Augustine concerning verse 5. Because this very thing, that a man be not moved and that he abide fixed in the Lord, he should not attribute to self, lest, when he glorifies that he hath not been moved, he be moved by this very pride. What are we to do when we're lost in a state of lament? Stop looking at and to ourselves and start looking at and to our gracious, merciful and wholly capable Heavenly Father.

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