In the poem "Footprints in the Sand," the poet says to the Lord: "I don't understand why you left my side when I needed you most." Many believers have experienced that during their toughest trials, the feeling of God's presence dramatically disappears: contrary to what we would have wished. We are not the first believers to struggle with the feeling of having been abandoned by God. King David himself also had this feeling. "How long?" he asked the Lord, "How long will you hide your face from me?" Sinclair Ferguson teaches us that the comforting words of the psalmists can be as real for us today as they were for them.
The book "Abandoned by God?" will help you read the Psalms with true insight and find divine consolation in them.
