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November 18: When a Tsunami comes against your family.

Psalm 69:16-18:
Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God. Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully; though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it.
O God, You know my foolishness; and my sins are not hidden from You. Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children; because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that became my reproach. I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, hear me in the truth of Your salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the floodwater overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. And do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily. Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. 


What a heartbreaking psalm! How painful these words of the psalmist are and the way he described his situation which is too hard to bear.  
His situation was so tough that he felt it was consuming him, he felt drowned, with no way out. He felt like he was being swept away by a rushing stream of water, mud and debris. This is the literal description when one is surprised by a Tsunami. Exactly, the psalmist is describing a horrifying scene broadcasted on the news channels, or that you can find on YouTube. 
16 years ago, on December 26, 2004, the Spanish Álvarez Belón family was on vacation in Thailand when they were surprised by the Tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people. In a miraculous way, all the members of the family survived: father, mother and the 3 children of 10, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Their story inspired the movie called "The Impossible." 
Likewise, the panorama in which the psalmist found himself is similar to that of those tourists who were tranquil on the beach when, suddenly, the waves came upon them dragging, and where several lost their lives and others were seriously injured by the blows or by the muddy waters that entered their lungs. To add to the problem, there is the desperate voice that screams for help but that nobody listens to you and, in this case, David feels that God does not see or hear him.

The first verses are similar to Psalm 40 that we studied on October 25, entitled "From the well to the Rock", in case you want to study this subject more furter.
But beyond the experience of the psalmist, this is a reflection of another suffering: that of the Messiah. This psalm describes how the Lord felt in the midst of the Jews when they persecuted Him to catch Him in something bad and falsely accuse Him. In verses 8 and 9 we can read the messianic prophetic verses when it refers to His zeal for the house of God consuming Him. We see this in the New Testament, when the Lord took out several of the vendors who were deceiving those who came to the temple to...