Voluntary Absence

My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest.  Psalm 22:2  NASB Cry out – Who’s responsible?  That’s what we want to know.  If I’m crying out day and night, if I feel the desperate emptiness of God’s absence, if I’m fixated on His reply,…

The Summons

My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest.  Psalm 22:2  NASB Cry out – Anthony Bloom’s comment is frightening: “ . . . it is very important to remember that prayer is an encounter and a relationship, a relationship which is deep, and this…

The Sign of the Afflicted

O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest.   Psalm 22:2 Do Not Answer – If you had to boil all of life’s heartaches down to a single characteristic, what would you choose?  David provides the Biblical perspective in this Hebrew phrase, lo (not)…