Have you forgotten me forever?
Have you hidden your face from me?
How long will sorrow fill my heart?
How long will my eyes waste away with tears?
Others have been exalted over me,
Rejoicing over my stumbling
While I am bowed down in mourning.
How long, oh Lord?
How long will this world be broken?
Be gracious to me in my languishing.
You are the lifter of my head.
You have given me relief in distress.
Oh Lord, save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
Break my schemes of earthly joy,
That I may seek my all in you.
This is a draft of a prayer I "wrote" for part of a July service we're planning which will be broadcasted on the radio. I didn't exactly write it; I mostly borrowed lines from a few different Psalms and put them together. The last two lines are taken from one of my favorite Indelible Grace hymns, I Asked The Lord.
The service is based in Ecclesiastes 9:11, but we have a few other passages that we'll read as well. The service will focus on our complaint that we don't get what we feel we deserve (where my prayer will fit in), our consolation that we don't get what we really deserve, and then how all this manifests in Christ on the cross--how he took what we deserve and we received what he deserved. Liz, David, Alan, and I all have been picking songs, assigning readings/prayer writers/instrumentalists/etc, and doing all the other necessary planning things. Should be exciting!
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