Locating god in times of loneliness an exegetical paper on psalms 22

Loneliness is killing. Several people in all generations have one existential issue or the other for which they feel forsaken, alone, perplexed, and broken-hearted. It was so devastating that the Psalmist, Psalm number 22 verses 1 alarmed: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me…? Even the Lord Jesus felt the devastating effect of loneliness that he cried similarly in the Gospels, when he was facing the ordeals of the cross. The Psalmist in his own consternation found solution in raising a dwelling place for God. Against this background, the paper hypothesizes that the praise of God in times of trouble is the legitimate solution to the crisis of hopelessness, bewilderment, and loneliness. Closely related to that are the spiritual instrument of war employed by the Psalmist namely: the weapon of prayer, hope, and trust to overcome the problem of rejection, loneliness, and dehumanizing experiences. In such situation, the distance between where God is not and where there is God is the real source of dilemma. The paper therefore attempts to answer the question of where is God in time of perplexity.