This vlog is different. This one goes back almost 45 years but is still right there for me. Amazing how time can stay still sometimes, or somehow bring us right back.
FULL TRANSCRIPT How long, Lord? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? If you lost your first love, a spouse, or a child, or wrestle with sorrow or sickness, the questions David raises in the first verses of Psalm 13 have been your own. The heart-ripping lament is there.
I forget a lot of things, but one longstanding memory has never left. It was a time when, as a boy in this church, I stared up at this historic ceiling. My mother’s lap was a pillow. I don’t have a clue what the pastor was saying and I didn’t care. I just knew his words meant love. I knew his words were from God.
It is the feeling I remember. God never being far, never hiding His face. For too many days I have experienced sorrow in my heart, chambers of sadness have poured, but God, while silent, never left.
Sunday we’ll engage what everyone of us experiences, and that is our God who has been silent. Join us for the second of the 4-part Bible study series as we learn—and live into—what this silence means.
Until then, God bless you and amen.