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Home/Biblical and Theological/God Has Not Forgotten You In Your Time of Great Sorrow

God Has Not Forgotten You In Your Time of Great Sorrow

When the aches of our heart thrust us toward the only One who can bring true, lasting comfort, then they serve a good purpose.

Written by Paul Tautges | Thursday, February 11, 2021

“When I remember God, I moan, when I meditate, my spirit faints. You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak” (vv. 3–4). He moans, yes. But he moans in faith . . . to God. His complaint does not flow from unbelief, but is evidence of an active faith—faith that longs for the completion of the incomplete, the resolution of the unresolved

 

The pain of loss can lead you to feel alone, even forgotten. The lack of answers to your Why questions and the drying up of the stream of encouraging phone calls, or mail can add to this solitary feeling. There also may be a lack of a sense of what our society calls closure; that is, the acceptance of what has happened and the transition to something new. In all of this, you may wonder where God is. Your heart may speculate whether he, too, has forgotten you. But he has not!

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Psalm 77:9

The healing that you long to experience may not come right away. It rarely does. It will take time. You need to accept that, and be patient. By the time the writer of Psalm 77 asks, “Has God forgotten to be gracious?” he has already been earnestly crying out to him.

“I cry aloud to God,” he begins, “aloud to God, and he will hear me” (v. 1). Limping alongside his grief, intertwined with his pain, are cries of faith. “In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted” (v. 2). Fueling his cries of faith is the pain that will not go away, but lingers. It is not physical pain, but the inner pain of sorrow and loss. It is the hurt that persists. But God does not find this man’s questions offensive. No, God welcomes his lament.

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