In Psalms, chapter forty-four, verse nine, the psalmist believes that God’s people are suffering and defeated because God has forsaken them, as in verses nine through sixteen. Yet he is perplexed because he can’t find any evidence of sin that would account for such rejection, for they have remained faithful to God and His covenant, as in verses seventeen through nineteen. The psalmist reflects the experience of God’s children who, though upright and blameless like Job, still undergo great adversity, dark periods of testing, and times when God’s presence seems withdrawn.
The theme under Appeal to God for Deliverance describes the saints of God suffering and in a battle where it appears they are not gaining victory. Although the godly are not doing wrong, it does not mean they will not go through any hardship. God knows all about our lives and what the righteous people are facing. After Moses left Egypt to lead his people out from under Pharoah, did he foresee the trials he would encounter with the Egyptians?
The servant of God did not expect to undergo rejection from the King of Egypt and experience the fight after each plague manifested through the Almighty God that it would take this long for Pharoah to give up and let Israel go out of his sight. Although Pharaoh eventually let them go, he attempted afterward to get them back and catch them at the Red Sea. In Exodus fourteen, verse five, “And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
The believer will continue striving to serve God despite not seeing what they expect. God’s ways are not our ways. However, He is the Holy One who helped us in the past. In Psalms thirty-eight, verse twenty-one, “Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.”