What does Psalm 10:1 mean?

David asks questions that many believers ask when troubles strike them. Where is God? Why isn't He intervening, right here and right now? It is easy to praise the Lord when life goes along smoothly but not so easy to praise Him when troubles strike. This is where faith enters our relationship with the Lord: looking back on what we know of God to reassure us when we're unsure or unsettled (Hebrews 12:1).

Asaph, another psalmist, felt conflict and doubt in a similar way. In Psalm 73 he confesses that he almost lost his faith (Psalm 73:22) because the wicked were prospering and were trouble free. By contrast, he felt constantly harassed despite striving to lead a godly life (Psalm 73:13–14). Elijah must have felt the Lord had abandoned him, despite the faith he had shown at Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:20–40). He had championed the Lord's cause against a host of false prophets, but when Jezebel put a contract on his life, he fled to the desert, where he seems to question the Lord's absence and unfairness (1 Kings 19:10).