Psalm 13 - A Struggle with God.

Psalm 13 - What it means to me.

How long will you forget me, O Lord? Will it be forever? How long will you look the other way?

How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day?

How long will the enemy have the upper hand?

Please answer me, oh Lord my God! Give light to my eyes or I will sleep in death.

But even if I feel this way, I will trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because of your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord because he has been so good to me.

Many times, when I have been depressed, when anguish filled my soul, I have prayed for God's help. His help doesn't always come at once. I go back to him again and again to pour out my heart. Always, in his time, God comes to me to give me strength to meet another day; to give me hope and peace of mind. I must have trust in His unfailing love as David did.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever?.... When God does not immediately deliver his people from their enemies, or help them out of an affliction; when he does not discover his love, communicate his grace, apply the blessings and promises of his covenant as usual; and when he does not visit them in his usual manner, and so frequently as he has formerly done, they are ready to conclude he has forgotten them; and sometimes this continues long, and then they fear they are forgotten for ever; and this they cannot bear, and therefore expostulate with God in a querulous manner, as the psalmist does here; but this is to be understood not in reality, but in their own apprehension, and in the opinion of their enemies; God never does nor can forget his people; oblivion does not fall upon him with respect to common persons and things; and much less with respect to his own dear children, for whom a special book of remembrance is written; See Gill on Psalm 9:18;