Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Hard Pressed - But Never Despairing

We are... perplexed but not in despair (2 Corinthians 4:8).

How long, Lord? Will You forget me forever?

How long will You hide Your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts

and day after day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, Lord my God.

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in Your unfailing love;

my heart rejoices in Your salvation.

I will sing the Lord’s praise,

for He has been good to me.

Psalm 13

I love You, Lord—You heard my cries,

And pitied every groan;

Long as I live, when troubles rise,

I’ll hasten to Your throne.

I love You, Lord—You bowed Your ear,

And chased my griefs away;

My heart need never know despair

While I have breath to pray!

~ Scripture: from Psalm 116 arr. by Isaac Watts, 1719