Psalm 39
FYI: today's heart's cry is going to be a tad different, Happy Thanksgiving.
In Psalm 39 David seems to be at a Thanksgiving meal this year surrounded by family members who have different political views than he does and he is straining to keep his mouth shut so he doesn't put them in the place they so richly deserve. In response to this dilemma David wants God to remind him that he isn't going to live very long because that seems to be the only way that he might not get into the fight that he wants to get into.
In the next stanza, shortly after saying that his hope is in God, David seems to be greatly disturbed by something that God has done, one might be able to assume that David is angry with God because God did not do an adequate job of convincing him that a short life means he doesn't need to argue about so many things. Since God did not come through David is now convinced that the conversations that are happening around him are not just the thoughts of his aunts, uncles, and distant cousins but are rather direct blows from the Almighty.
David then takes a moment to remind himself that God smites those who sin, either because his cousin has finally went around the bend in her thinking about some issue or another, or because he needs reminding that murdering your family is not the correct course of action if no one brought whipped cream for the pumpkin pie.
David, coming to the end of the Psalm. and possibly his sanity, is now in tears and is so distressed that he believes that the only way for him to be happy again is for God to turn away from him. This may be because he thinks that if God turns away he can finally let forth the multitude of curses that he has for his various family members, after which he may either slap them or just drop the mic and walk away.
+ Praying that your family get togethers this year look nothing like the one I envision for David.
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