Perhaps it is showing us that even if we have God as our Savior, our sin displeases Him. Perhaps it is a statement that God, like a parent, disciplines us with distance from time to time- yet never leaves us defenseless.
We return to the refrain of Psalm 42- why so downcast, hope in God. But I must say, it is hard to have hope in God when God seems distant-whether it is by His action or ours. It is hard to hope in God when we still feel the sting of regret for our sins- and though we know the facts that God forgives us by grace, we don't feel that we deserve it. Which we don't, but we deny ourselves the acceptance of this grace. That may be OK for a time, but we must eventually accept that God forgives, God restores, God gives hope. To deny God's grace is to accept defeat.
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