Jesus First: The Readings — a road at first light with a few people walking it together

How long?Psalm 13:1-6Length: Standard

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • What does the writer ask God, and how does he feel at the start?
    • What does he choose to do at the end, before anything has changed?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • Have you been through a season when God seemed silent or far away? What did you do with that?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • When this week will you tell God honestly how you feel, and then name one thing you will trust him for?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who is in a season where God feels far away? How could this psalm help them?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

Lord, sometimes I do not feel you the way I used to. I am telling you so, and I will keep talking to you. Teach me to trust your love when I cannot feel it.