Psalm 42

1 For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. 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—va 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.

Mel: "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. "

In times when i feel down.. and disturbed within.. i want to learn to put my hope in God, not in people, not in circumstances, not in sucess, not in approval, not in appreciation. But to look to God. Reminds me of pastor Khong's word, i want to find that rest and stillness before God and continue to do God.

Jenn: Sometimes when we feel like there is noone else left...we shdn't wallow in our melancholy. Instead, we could come to the realizationt that it could be God calling out to us...cos He misses us. And sometimes, the only way for us to pay attention to Him in a world where so many distractions come our way, is for Him to remove everything else.

"My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of
the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar."

May we not wait till our souls are downcast before we remember God, even though a broken and contrite heart draws us near to God. May we remember Him always, may we acknowledge and appreciate His presence every moment of our lives, may we always treasure greatly the miraculous fact that God chose to live in us, amongst all places in the world. =)