Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death…Psalm 13:3 – While short in length, this psalm certainly gets to the point quickly of where David was at with the Lord. Of course the Lord hadn’t truly forgotten about David and hid Himself from him, but David felt as if this was true. David’s enemies were surrounding him, he was crying out to the Lord for help, yet the silence he received from the Lord to his cries was crushing to his spirit. Here in verse three we see a line that was so healthy for David to pray, “light up my eyes.” David knew he wasn’t seeing the situation clearly. David knew better than to believe that God had abandoned and forgotten about him, but that’s how his vision, clouded by the discouragement and attacks, was seeing his situation. So David asked the Lord to uncloud his vision and lighten up the situation so he could see things clearly once again. As you read the final two verses in the psalm, while we don’t see a saving yet of David from whatever trial he was in, we do see his heart posture change as a result of enlightened eyes. His trust in the Lord is renewed and he is rejoicing with song for he remembers how the Lord had abundantly blessed Him. Maybe today then the phrase you need to pray is, “Lord, light up my eyes.” Maybe you too like David have vision clouded by discouragement, deception, and difficultly. It appears to you that God has abandoned you and forgotten about you. Pray then for enlightened eyes to see the situation unclouded by such things. For you are not forgotten and you will never be abandoned by our God. He can turn our mourning into singing, and He does so by opening our eyes to seeing His never-ending faithfulness and goodness in our story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2968
Question To Ponder: Why would our enemy desire us to have our eyes darkened to what God is doing?
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