Forgotten Words

Tonight, while listening to my pastor, I did as I sometimes do. My mind wandered and I read some scripture that wasn't part of his sermon text. Don't tell me this never happens to you when you're not really "into" hearing what he's bringing. And I read this from Psalms 77. (amplified King James version)
1   I WILL cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and He will give ear and hearken to me.
 2   In the day of my trouble I seek (inquire of and desperately require) the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out [in prayer] without slacking up; I refuse to be comforted.
 3   I [earnestly] remember God; I am disquieted and I groan; I muse in prayer, and my spirit faints [overwhelmed]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
 4   You hold my eyes from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
 5   I consider the days of old, the years of bygone times [of prosperity].
 6   I call to remembrance my song in the night; with my heart I meditate and my spirit searches diligently:
 7   Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more?
 8   Have His mercy and loving-kindness ceased forever? Have His promises ended for all time?
 9   Has God [deliberately] abandoned or forgotten His graciousness? Has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
 10   And I say, This [apparent desertion of Israel by God] is my appointed lot and trial, but I will recall the years of      the right hand of the Most High [in loving-kindness extended toward us], for this is my grief, that the right hand of the Most High changes.
 11   I will [earnestly] recall the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will [earnestly] remember the wonders [You performed for our fathers] of old.
 12   I will meditate also upon all Your works and consider all Your [mighty] deeds.
 13   Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary [in holiness, away from sin and guilt]. Who is a great God like our God?
 14   You are the God Who does wonders; You have demonstrated Your power among the peoples.

And I thought of the times during that 5 1/2 weeks in Trauma ICU that I felt like God had left me. I couldn't feel Him, I couldn't hear Him, and I thought what have I done to bring all of this on my family, on my son? Since then I've experienced guilt that my faith wavered and I let the Temptor have that edge over me. I know I've read this passage several times before, but when I  needed to remember it, I couldnt. Thanks to all of your prayers and holding me up when I was hurting and angry, I'm able now to go back and get the comfort I need. I have seen His miracles in times past, he has given me a song, when I did not feel like singing. The nights I couldn't sleep and I was so weary and anguished, I did not know what to pray, and all I could do was litteraly sit and groan. I thought of the seven times in four years Brandon was at "deaths door" according to the doctors, but he "confounded the wise", and lived to tell of another miracle. The answers we need for whatever we are facing, are in His Word. Conditions sometimes block them out, but His words will never pass away. Somebody out there needed this tonight because it  was not what I intended to write about.
Please, all 6000+ of you who may see this, thank God tomorrow sometime for America. Yes, she has her faults right now. Some really serious ones that fly in the face of God's laws and what our founding fatrhers intended when writing our constituion, (which was founded on Gods Word, I don't care what anybody says to the contrary). But she is till the greatest country on earth.
Tonight, while listening to my pastor, I did as I sometimes do. My mind wandered and I read some scripture that wasn't part of his sermon text. Don't tell me this never happens to you when you're not really "into" hearing what he's bringing. And I read this from Psalms 77. (amplified King James version)
1   I WILL cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and He will give ear and hearken to me.
 2   In the day of my trouble I seek (inquire of and desperately require) the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out [in prayer] without slacking up; I refuse to be comforted.
 3   I [earnestly] remember God; I am disquieted and I groan; I muse in prayer, and my spirit faints [overwhelmed]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
 4   You hold my eyes from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
 5   I consider the days of old, the years of bygone times [of prosperity].
 6   I call to remembrance my song in the night; with my heart I meditate and my spirit searches diligently:
 7   Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more?
 8   Have His mercy and loving-kindness ceased forever? Have His promises ended for all time?
 9   Has God [deliberately] abandoned or forgotten His graciousness? Has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
 10   And I say, This [apparent desertion of Israel by God] is my appointed lot and trial, but I will recall the years of      the right hand of the Most High [in loving-kindness extended toward us], for this is my grief, that the right hand of the Most High changes.
 11   I will [earnestly] recall the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will [earnestly] remember the wonders [You performed for our fathers] of old.
 12   I will meditate also upon all Your works and consider all Your [mighty] deeds.
 13   Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary [in holiness, away from sin and guilt]. Who is a great God like our God?
 14   You are the God Who does wonders; You have demonstrated Your power among the peoples.

And I thought of the times during that 5 1/2 weeks in Trauma ICU that I felt like God had left me. I couldn't feel Him, I couldn't hear Him, and I thought what have I done to bring all of this on my family, on my son? Since then I've experienced guilt that my faith wavered and I let the Temptor have that edge over me. I know I've read this passage several times before, but when I  needed to remember it, I couldnt. Thanks to all of your prayers and holding me up when I was hurting and angry, I'm able now to go back and get the comfort I need. I have seen His miracles in times past, he has given me a song, when I did not feel like singing. The nights I couldn't sleep and I was so weary and anguished, I did not know what to pray, and all I could do was litteraly sit and groan. I thought of the seven times in four years Brandon was at "deaths door" according to the doctors, but he "confounded the wise", and lived to tell of another miracle. The answers we need for whatever we are facing, are in His Word. Conditions sometimes block them out, but His words will never pass away. Somebody out there needed this tonight because it  was not what I intended to write about.
Please, all 6000+ of you who may see this, thank God tomorrow sometime for America. Yes, she has her faults right now. Some really serious ones that fly in the face of God's laws and what our founding fatrhers intended when writing our constituion, (which was founded on Gods Word, I don't care what anybody says to the contrary). But she is till the greatest country on earth.