This trajectory, common to the Psalms, remains a model for modern worship services. In the June 1997 issue of Reformed Worship, John D. Witvliet describes liturgical lament for use in church, modeled on the “basic psalm forms.” He writes that despite our disillusionment, no matter that we cannot hear God’s voice, “we bring our most intense theological questions right into the sanctuary. . . . Then our prayer continues with specific petition: heal us, free us, save us.”
