“My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”
The Fog
This psalmist names both genuine grief and external questioning together, worth examining directly, tears as actual meat, day and night, alongside others actively asking, where is thy God, worth holding as honest naming of a wound that is both internal and, additionally, publicly, externally challenged.
This is worth examining against however much your own honest doubt has felt additionally burdened by others’ actual questions or skepticism, worth holding as real, compounded difficulty, not merely your own private struggle, but this described, additional weight of external challenge to your genuine faith.
Notice this psalm continues, in its very next verses, toward genuine, remembered hope, worth holding as this whole book’s own pattern, honest naming of present difficulty not preventing genuine movement toward hope, but actually, honestly preceding it, worth trusting as available in your own story too.
Whatever tears have genuinely been your own meat, day and night, and whatever external questioning has compounded this honest struggle, name it today as directly as this psalmist named it, trusting that this honest naming is not the end of the psalm, or of your own story, but its genuine, necessary beginning.
Walk Through the Fog
- Name honestly both your internal grief and any external questioning that has compounded it.
- Receive this psalm’s own honest naming as legitimate, not weakness to hide or minimize.
- Trust that this honest beginning can genuinely move toward hope, as this whole psalm eventually does.
Prayer
Lord, my tears have been my meat day and night, while others ask, where is thy God? Let me name this honestly, trusting it as the beginning, not the end, of my story. Amen.
Carry this today
Honest grief, even compounded by others’ questioning, can genuinely move toward hope.