Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Yesterday I asked you to look in that spiritual mirror to see who you are in Christ. Each of us are undergoing change. What we were in the past is not who we are today. Growth in Christ can be just as difficult for us as growing up as a natural child. We are not exempt from periods of frustration or even down times. These next verses point out we are not exempt just because we have a relationship with the Lord.
Psalm 143:7-8 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Hear me Lord speaks to relationship. My spirit fails, speaks to our inability to maintain a continual or constant right attitude about ourselves. It is easy to feel right when everything is going good. It is when the enemy attacks that we feel like we failed to maintain contact with the goodness of the Lord.
There were times in my life I was told “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”. This is error. It isn’t always your fault that you are down. “Cause me to hear” in verse 8 above begs God to intercede on our behalf because it is He who lifts us up and not we ourselves. You cannot dig your way out of a hole.