PART ONE
Psalm 13:1-2, New King James Version To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
I've worked with people in a number of capacities over the years: father, leader, elder, teach, deacon, and supervisor. I've been asked to stop or had to leave all of those roles at times not of my own choosing, so perhaps my observations at this point are of little consequence. I have observed that if you let people talk long enough, there are several things that tend to happen such that people will:
Identify issues, often inadvertently
Answer their own questions, often within their own questions
Find the right answer but have too many excuses
Solve everyone else's problems because they disallow their excuses
In Psalm 12, David start with a plea, "Help." Here, in chapter 13, he starts with four questions in two verses. I counted six references to time (in blue bold text) and six mentions of himself (in red underline text).
So, David's on a roll here, and while he gets +1 for addressing himself to God, he loses some points as I'll work out in my next post where I cover the four items I mentioned.
Identify issues, often inadvertently
Answer their own questions, often within their own questions
Find the right answer but have too many excuses
Solve everyone else's problems because they disallow their excuses
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