The weekend is here, what kind of week did you have?
If it was anything like mine, it was full of challenges and trials. There were some where I won the battle, and some I'd just rather forget and move on.
Reading Psalm 43 today; I love the honesty in this.
Psalm 43
1 Vindicate me, my God,
and plead my cause
against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue me from those who are
deceitful and wicked.
2 You are God my stronghold.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?
Have you ever felt like this? Rejected by God and alone? Let's read on...
3 Send me your light and your faithful care,
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.
Here the Psalmist prays to the Lord. Many of us can stay at this point, we pray and think, "Ok God, do your thing!
But he goes one more step, he actually speaks to himself!
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
Sometimes prayer is not enough, we need to encourage, even challenge ourselves to put our hope in God! And then, actually do just that.
