Have you ever felt overwhelmed in your spirit? Like some folks were just out to get you? Like no one was concerned about you and you had nowhere to go? Have you ever felt in desperate need and that you were, figuratively, in prison?
I am not just making up the words in the questions above randomly. They are drawn from the very words that a fellow believer expressed when in a time of great despair. How did he handle it? Read Psalm 142. See David’s heart raw and aching before God.
David cried out to the Lord (v. 1). He poured out his complaint and trouble to God (v. 2). He trusted that when everything else was going wrong around him that God would “know” (v. 3), God would “see” (v. 4), God would listen (v. 6), God would “care” (v. 4), God would take him in (v. 5), God would provide (v. 5), God would help (v. 6), God would work through His saints (v. 7), God would “deal bountifully” with him (v. 7). Even though he could not see all of that in the moment, David said that He would praise the name of the Lord (v. 7)! How about you?