Psalm 22:2-5

Continuing in Psalm 22 - Thoughts by Spurgeon - My thoughts in parentheses - My emphasis italicized in bold

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent. - "...it is observable that he still held fast his believing hold on God, and cried still "My God." On the other hand his faith did not render him less importunate, for amid the hurry and horror of that dismal day he ceased not his cry, even as in Gethsemane he had agonized all through the gloomy night. Our Lord continued to pray even though no comfortable answer came, and in this he set us an example of obedience to his own words, "men ought always to pray, and not to faint." No daylight is too glaring and no midnight too dark to pray in; and no delay or apparent denial, however grievous, should tempt us to forbear from importunate
pleading."

(Yes, Lord, thank-You for Spurgeon's words here. May I never give up praying. You hear, and You hold my hand even though I may not always sense it. Hallelujah!)

3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel, - "However ill things may look, there is no ill in thee, O God!...There is no unrighteousness with the God of Jacob, he deserves no censure; let him do what he will, he is to be praised, and to reign enthroned amid the songs of his chosen people. If prayer be unanswered it is not because God is unfaithful, but for some other good and weighty reason. If we cannot perceive any ground for the
delay, we must leave the riddle unsolved, but we must not fly in God's face in order in invent an answer."

4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. - "Our Lord here pleads the past dealings of God with his people as a reason why he should not be left alone; here again he is an example to us in the skillful use of the weapon of all prayer."

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. - "As if he had said, 'How is it that I am now without succour in my overwhelming griefs, while all others have been helped?' We may remind the Lord of his former lovingkindnesses
to his people, and beseech him to be still the same...Observe, that ancient saints cried and trusted, and that in trouble we must do the same; and the invariable result was that they were not ashamed of their hope, for deliverance came in due time; this same happy portion shall be ours. The prayer of faith can do the deed when nothing else can. Let us wonder when we see Jesus using the same pleas as ourselves, and immersed in griefs far deeper than our own."

(Yes, Lord, You helped godly men in the past. You even brought the children of Israel "forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes,"(Ps.105:37)...And You gave them food and water. You didn't even let their clothes wear out. You can do this for me, too! Hallelujah!)