1 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,
from 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.
Father, bless all who pass this way through Your word. Let the words of this Psalm soak into the soil of their souls, and let it bring forth much fruit. Where we are dry, drench us in Your spirit. Where we are broken, bind up our wounds and heal us. Where we are complacent, stir up a fire within us. Teach us to walk in Your ways, and to longingly cry out, "When can I go and meet with God?"
In Jesus' name, amen.
Be blessed!
Deena
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Psalm 42
Posted by Deena Peterson at 11:49 AM
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Amen and Amen. We cry out to Him because He knows us. He can take what is in us. I have been crying out for understanding----He says it is O.K. to be weak. Rest in your weakness, stop struggling to be something I don't want you to be. He does not need me to be strong.. He wants me weak and then when I cry out to Him --for Him, and wait--watch out baby here comes the strength.
My pastor told me tonight that God had told him to stop praying for me the way he had been. God told him, why do you keep praying for Me to make her strong through all this? I want her weak---then I'll be strong in her." Matter of fact because of my life lessons God has given Him some real truth about where we are going wrong praying for each other and ourselves. I will be really glad to hear the sermon on Sunday. I'll fill the details in on my Blog.
Till then take my hand and let's walk. We will just wander along and talk about the goodness of the God we serve. How deeply He loves us and how we are almost embarrassed by how he pursues us. How it is so sweet and gently of Him to love us just the way we are. And How life would really not be worth living if we did not know that everything that gets to us has to be filtered first through His hands.
Yes, I think we can start there and then who knows where God will take us.
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