Psalm 55:12-23

Psalm 55:12-23
  The Message (MSG)

  12-14 This isn’t the neighborhood bully mocking me—I could take that. This isn’t a foreign devil spitting invective—I could tune that out. It’s you! We grew up together! You! My best friend! Those long hours of leisure as we walked arm in arm, God a third party to our conversation. 15 Haul my betrayers off alive to hell—let them experience the horror, let them feel every desolate detail of a damned life.
  16-19 I call to God; God will help me. At dusk, dawn, and noon I sigh deep sighs—he hears, he rescues. My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. God hears it all, and from his judge’s bench puts them in their place. But, set in their ways, they won’t change; they pay him no mind.
  20-21 And this, my best friend, betrayed his best friends; his life betrayed his word. All my life I’ve been charmed by his speech, never dreaming he’d turn on me. His words, which were music to my ears, turned to daggers in my heart.
  22-23 Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders— he’ll carry your load, he’ll help you out. He’ll never let good people topple into ruin. But you, God, will throw the others into a muddy bog, Cut the lifespan of assassins and traitors in half. And I trust in you.

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  Here, the Psalmist laments betrayal at the hands of a close friend.  What could be more painful?  What could hurt more?
  So the Psalmist runs to God.
  When life hurts, when its pains cut us deeply, we run to God, and we trust in him.  Life will disappoint us, time and time again--in all these times, we run to God.
  We run to God when we are confused and don't understand, and we run to God when we are hurt and do understand.  We recognize that God is the source of our strength, that God & God alone can heal and forgive and redeem and save.  Only God will never let us down.  Only God will stand with us forever.
  Thanks be to God.

  May you trust in God's eternal goodness today