21 But you, Sovereign LORD,
Psalms 109:21-23 (NIV)
help me for your name’s sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.
Sometimes we are the wounded ones, feeling like we have lost what we had, leaving us emotionally destitute. We feel like a late afternoon shadow gradually fading away as night falls. It seems like we are hanging on to life but it keeps brushing us off, like an annoying insect trying to land on someone who keeps shooing it away.
But in all this Yahweh still loves us. He is the ultimate ruler of all and we are the people called by the name of his Son. We are his children and he comforts our hearts and gives us new beginnings, and he will redeem our whole lives in the next age. Then we will see his full deliverance and experience the full embrace of his loving arms. We mourn now, but he will never stop giving us life.
