Psalms 13

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XIII.—How painful, to an exercised believer, is the sense of God’s absence and frowns! An hour is an age without his love! But the most precious saints are often exercised with long and constant sorrows: and their anxiety and vain contrivances to help themselves will but add to their burden, entangle them more and more, and bring them to the brink of despair. But, though God hide, and frown, and smite, his new covenant relation cannot be broken. Let Satan and his agents triumph as they may in their fall, there is full hope of their recovery; nay, it is at hand. Trust in God’s mercy, and prayers poured into his bosom will quickly issue in great deliverance and joy