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A Prayer of Wrestling Faith
Commentators like John Calvin and Charles Ellicott explain that this desperate question, "How long, O Lord?", is not a sign of failing faith but of faith actively wrestling with despair. By turning to God in prayer, even with a complaint, the psalmist shows an underlying trust in God's promises. This teaches that it is an act of faith to bring our rawest emotions and hardest questions to God.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 89:46
18th Century
Theologian
How long, Lord? - How long is this to continue? Can it be that this is to continue always? Is there to be no change for the better?…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 89:46
19th Century
Bishop
How long. —With this persistent cry of the Maccabean age (), the poet shows that faith is not extinct, though it has a sore strugg…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 89:46
19th Century
Preacher
That was the wisest thing for the psalmist to do, and it is our best course also; in the darkest days of the most sinful age, we can always resort …
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John Calvin
On Psalms 89:46
16th Century
Theologian
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? After pouring out his complaints regarding the sad and calamitous condition of the C…
John Gill
On Psalms 89:46
17th Century
Pastor
How long, Lord, will you hide yourself? for ever?
&c.] When God hides his face front his people, though it is but fo…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 89:38–52
17th Century
Minister
Sometimes it is not easy to reconcile God's providences with His promises, yet we are sure that God's works fulfill His word. When the great Anoint…