Hey sweet friend, :) glad you are back to read this blessing. This is for you. God wants you to know He is watching over you. You are loved much by Him. You gotta trust Him in every aspect of your life. He don't want you to be downcast. Even if you are experiencing set backs, God will strengthen you and help you through. Believe it! :)
Today's devotion is based on Psalm 42 where the Psalmist is sharing an honest prayer in his desperate moments. He sharing a deep need. The Psalmist is sharing about his soul longing for God just like the deer pant's for water. God was an urgent need of his soul; It was an absolute necessity, like water to a stag. As you go through the chapter it shows that the psalmist has distant from God and is now longing to get back. Tears and grief took away his appetite and tears became his food.
To make matters worse he was around people who wanted to make him feel that at his moment of need, God was nowhere to be found. They made the psalmist feel that God had abandoned him. When he remembered about the good times of how he went with the multitude and had a wonderful time worshipping in the house of the Lord but it made him sadder that he lost all that and felt so distant from those better days.
Then he pauses to challenge his own soul asking, 'why his soul was so downcast?' He did not give into depression and spiritual decline instead He laid these question to God Himself. He said to those cast down and disquieted feelings, “Hope in God. He will come through again, because He has before.”
The psalmist knew to look for help in God’s countenance – that is, the approving face of God. He found a better place by challenging his sense of gloom and seeking after God’s face, His countenance.
Then we see that the psalmist came to a place of greater confidence, secure in God’s goodness to him in the daytime or at night.
In the end we see a contradiction, the psalmist, had the confidence to call God his Rock – his place of security, stability, and strength. At the same time he could honestly bring his feelings to God and ask, “Why have You forgotten me?” But it actually is that the psalmist senses God sustaining him, but his battle is not over. There is the constant oppression of the enemy. The taunt, “Where is your God?” continued from them.
In conclusion, the Psalmist decides no matter what, whoever is buried, lost or depressed, needs to keep hope in God and keep confidence that he who is oppressed shall yet praise and serve the Lord God alone. Good things take time. He is Your way-maker, a miracle worker, and a promise keeper. Trust Him alone.
Let's Pray, shall we?
Dear Lord,
Thank you for satisfying me with your love, peace, joy and hope. When I am weary you favored and carried me over. Thank you for such care and kindness. I am trusting you with everything. I need you. I look up to you for my help comes from you alone. You have covered me with your protection from all my enemies. Thank you Lord. I keep putting my hope and trust in you alone. In Jesus name, Amen.
Bible Verse of the day:
Psalm 42:1-11 - (This psalm is titled to the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.)
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
I pray this message blessed you much. Don't be downcast sweet friend, God is your hope and refuge. Keep trusting Him and have Faith! Stay blessed. Be encouraged. You are loved and protected by a King.
Devotional by: Team I Love Psalms
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