Author and theologian Russell Moore described noticing the eerie silence in the Russian orphanage where he adopted his boys Someone later explained that the babies had stopped crying because they learned that no one would respond to their cries When we face difficult times we too can feel that no one hears And worst of all we can feel that God Himself doesn rsquo t listen to our cries or see our tears But he does And that rsquo s why we need the language of petition and protest found in the psalms The psalmists petition for God rsquo s
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