Where Are You, Lord?
Why do we feel at times God has forsaken us?
- Our own disobedience
- Our present circumstances overwhelm us
- Our surrounding environment
The Description of the Wicked
God's Response to the Wicked
- I have seen what you have done (10:14)
- I will judge your sin (10:15)
- I am King (10:16)
- I will vindicate those you have oppressed (10:17-18)
Application
- We collectively chose life without God in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3).
- We who have been saved now live as pilgrims in a foreign land.
John 16:33: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
John 17:14-15: "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."
Philippians 3:18-21: "(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
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