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Ps 42

For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.

42 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and
6 my God. My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon — from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
8 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me — a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
NIV

As the week came to a close I felt the waves and I hit the rocks.
It had been a busy week but that in itself is not new.
For a split moment I lost heart and relied on the arm of flesh. I forgot that as the floodwaters of my Jordan river at the fountainhead of MT Hermon were rising and even as I hit the rocks…. THAT my God is still there!

• 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

I found myself in my studies this week asking that question of myself .
This year I pray for a renewed passion to make that the cry of my heart

• As things in the World get worse…..and the Challenges get greater

11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Let’s Praise Him together!

LORD we praise you that we know you and that you know us.
We pray that together this year we would hold onto you as the anchor of our hope
And that as we meet with you daily we would reflect your GLORY!
Our Hope is truly in YOU!
In Jesus name
Amen