Looking Beyond The Sun: For Your Love: A Psalm of Lament

Sunday, October 26, 2008

For Your Love: A Psalm of Lament

O Lord, do not hide Yourself from me;
do not be silent forever.
I long for Your voice;
as the ocean caresses the sand,
for Your words to wash over me.
You hover above
and Your lips are sealed.
My vision is blurry
and my ears are deaf.
O God, when will You break through?

I long for Your presence;
the peace Your strength brings,
the delight in Your grace
and the joy in Your love.
When will You come?
According to Your mercy
You will answer me.
You take all those who come
and You remember Your beloved.

O, hear my heart’s longing
and do not delay!
Illuminate my mind
and rescue me from my thoughts.
Look upon me
and act according to Your ever-pursuing love.
There are many lovers who steal people’s gaze;
that those may know Your love
is better than all,
come to me!

You are the God who hears,
the God who acts, the God who speaks.
I will wait, for You will come.
I will delight again in Your love
and will tell of the intoxication of Your presence.
Your love is the water to my thirsty soul
and in You I am happy.
I will praise You
for You have heard and You will come.

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I love the book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon, the author, is a man I can connect with. Not because of his wisdom (The Lord knows how much I need to grow in that). But much like Solomon I’ve wrestled with the futility of life. I’ve struggled with a sense of purposelessness, boredom with the mundane, and discovering fulfilled dreams still don’t satisfy. That’s why when he writes in Proverbs 1:14, “I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind,” I echo a resounding, Amen!

Everything on earth (i.e. under the sun) is meaningless unless there is something more, something beyond the sun. That’s the point of Ecclesiastes. Solomon knows that the only thing that will bring meaning is if we connect our daily, routine, mundane lives for the purposes of God and His glory. But it’s hard to remember that. That’s why God tells us to encourage each other day and after day (1 Thess 5:11, Heb 3:13). Because of the gospel of Jesus, we do have a great purpose. We have hope to share, love to give, and gifts to build up.

But so often I lose sight of this and need reminding. And I bet you do too. So that’s why I write this blog. I write because it’s a tool God uses to draw me closer to Him and reveal more of His goodness to me. It helps me sort out my thoughts and God’s thoughts as revealed in Scripture. I write this blog to help both myself and my readers look beyond the sun. Paul tells us to, “Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:2, 3). So every blog post has this goal behind it, to stir our hearts and minds to lift upwards and beyond the sun where life and meaning and perfect love are found.