From the Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Redeemer Covenant Resource e-newsletter to the congregation:

When we face tragedy, grave difficulties, and what may seem like circumstances far beyond us, it is good to cry out in prayer to the Lord God. We find the psalmist often crying out to the Lord for help, for wisdom, for answers to prayer. When we are in such a physical or emotional state, we go to God for help. Go to him with your emotions and a hurting heart. God wants you to come to him, rely upon him, and live your whole life in him. We find that is exactly what the psalmist does.

Psalm 13:1-6
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.

In light of the Annunciation school shooting, the Charlie Kirk murder, and the situations you are facing right now, go to the Lord, cry out from your heart to him. God wants your whole being to come to him, so pour out your heart to the God who loves you, who cares about you. Entrust all these life events to God, praying in the spirit of “I trust in you.”

Then close with singing God’s praises, because the cross of Jesus Christ stands boldly before us as eternal proof that God is good to us through all that we encounter in life.

Pastor Dan Thompson