Psalm 42

As the deer pants for the water brooks, 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 continually say to me, “Where is your God?”  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me.  For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.  Why are you cast down, O my soul?  And why are you disquieted within me?  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.  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.  Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all your waves and billows have gone over me.  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.  I will 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 breaking of my bones, my enemies reproach me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”  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.

All I can say is AMEN;  I needed to read that Psalm today.  The Lord does speak to us through his word and I am so thankful for it! Be encouraged today and see what the Lord has to say to you . . .