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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 13:1-6
Of this tribulation through which the Jewish remnant will pass in the last days before the millennial reign, the Lord Jesus declares that there will not have been any to compare with it since the beginning of creation . . . and that there never will be. We can therefore understand the cry of anguish, "How long?" repeated four times at the beginning of this psalm and also in several others. It is in reply to that question that the Lord will make a short work upon the earth (Mark 13:20; Romans 9:28). The Lord has promised that the Christian will never experience a comparable distress (Revelation 3:10). The Christian can however find himself in a state of discouragement, perhaps for a long period, and think that God has forgotten him and has deliberately hidden His face from him (v. 1). Perhaps this has happened to us. How do we emerge from such a gloomy tunnel? Let us cease first of all to fret and to take counsel in our own soul (v. 2); it will bring us no reply, but rather weariness and anguish (1 Samuel 27:1). Let us rather keep in mind this triumphant outburst: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution . . .?" (Romans 8:35 . . .). The remembrance of His goodness and of His salvation — there is the secret which will restore our confidence and our joy (v. 5).
