Often Christians today can get the impression that to be sorrowful exposes us as lacking in faith. Biblically that is not the case. About a third of the Psalms are laments: Songs that help the singers to worship God in difficult situations, by expressing sorrow in the presence of God. In Psalm 13 we look to see how our emotional life should be brought to God, and shaped by the truth. John Explains.
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13 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I take counsel in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord,
because he has dealt bountifully with me.