04/15/2026
“Will You Hide Your Face From Me?” – Psalm 13
This past Sunday Brother Powell spoke on Psalm 13, focusing on the kind of despair that comes during hard times. When it feels like God doesn’t see you or isn’t there.
But this isn't abnormal, God’s people have always felt this way.
David likely wrote Psalm 13 while running from Saul. He was a fugitive, an outcast, and even betrayed by those he trusted.
Look at Joseph at the end of Genesis, he was rejected by his brothers, unjustly convicted and then seemingly forgotten in an Egyptian prison.
Then after Joseph's death, the Israelites suffered brutally under Egyptian rule. Forced to make brick and mortar, beaten by taskmasters, and Pharaoh even commanded the Israelites to kill their own baby boys as a form of population control.
All of these people went through long stretches of suffering where God rarely, if ever, spoke. They felt alone. Forgotten. Like their enemies had won.
Don't we feel that way at times?
We look around today and see evil, division, false teaching, sickness, death.
We pray, but it can feel like nothing’s happening. Like David, we end up asking, “How long? How long will You hide Your face from me?”
It can feel hopeless.
As though we're in the depths of despair.
But Scripture doesn’t stop there.
In Psalm 22 the Psalmist cries for help and asks God directly if He had forsaken him.
But even in his plight the Psalmist goes on to address his brethren and say this about God.
(Psalm 22:23-24)
"23 You who fear the Lord, praise Him;
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
And stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel.
24 For He has NOT despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
NOR has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He heard."
God never looked away, He saw it all and He did deliver His people.
David was freed from Saul and made king.
Joseph was lifted from prison and used to save his family.
Israel was brought out of bo***ge, and Egypt was judged.
And because of Christ—His resurrection and His promise—we know the story isn’t over.
God has not turned away. He hasn’t forgotten His people. He sees everything. And just like He always has.
And in God's good time, He will send His Son, He will judge the wicked, and He will save His people.
