6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.—Psalm 42:6-11
What do we do as believers when our hearts are cast down and disquieted within us?
We remember God...
We remember His goodness and all His past deliverances. We remember that even as His waves and billows go over us that they will not overflow us.
Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.—Isaiah 43:1-2
We remember as David does in verse 8 that the Lord WILL command His lovingkindness in the daytime and in the night His song WILL be with us.
Our position as believers is “in Christ”
Our possession as believers is “Christ in us.”
My Beloved is mine and I am His. As a believer we stand permanently in God’s unmerited and undeserved favor. The God who created all things resides in our hearts and He has promised to never leave us. He is our help, our hope, our strength, our song, our sufficiency and our salvation.
Life is a spiritual battle. Trials, depression and discouragement are inevitable in this fallen world. But our God goes before us, is in us and fights for us. In Him, we are more than conquerors.
Beloved...God’s love and grace are unfailing. Bring your heart to Him who loves You with an everlasting love. There has NEVER...no not EVER been a time when His sustaining grace has not met me. I have never...again...no, not ever...gone to Him and come away uncomforted.
“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.—Jonah 2:7
Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.
Selah—Psalm 62:8
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”—1 John 5:4
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:37-39
22 Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
"Therefore I hope in Him!"
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.—Lamentations 3:22-25
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.—Psalm 42:11
