1 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation 6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and 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 do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Most people today are suffering from a very common disease. This disease is general diagnosed as stress or anxiety. Jesus tells us not to be anxious about anything because God will take care of you. But the real disease we suffer from is the torment and turmoil of questioning where our hope and Salvation come from.
Many of us do not trust in the words of Jesus because we are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. We do not see our salvation in front of our eyes. All we see is deadlines and due dates. Our lives are full of lists of things that need to get done. These lists pile up and create what most people call stress. The stress builds into anxiety. The anxiety creates a cage trapping us and making us feel pressure on all sides. This drives us further to question where is our God?
But the hope in God is not found in lists of things to do. The list God has given us is all done for us upon the cross. He does not expect us to complete this list on our own but provides the one who does it on our behalf. Jesus Christ provides us with Salvation from our lists and stress. He delivers us from anxiety, because their is a certain hope of everlasting life. In Christ's resurrection he promises to pull you up out of te piles and cage that continues to trap us in sins.
This is the true disease that infects us all, the disease of sin. Jesus heals us from this disease and promises everlasting life. So let us continue to come to his stream of living water.
Many of us do not trust in the words of Jesus because we are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. We do not see our salvation in front of our eyes. All we see is deadlines and due dates. Our lives are full of lists of things that need to get done. These lists pile up and create what most people call stress. The stress builds into anxiety. The anxiety creates a cage trapping us and making us feel pressure on all sides. This drives us further to question where is our God?
But the hope in God is not found in lists of things to do. The list God has given us is all done for us upon the cross. He does not expect us to complete this list on our own but provides the one who does it on our behalf. Jesus Christ provides us with Salvation from our lists and stress. He delivers us from anxiety, because their is a certain hope of everlasting life. In Christ's resurrection he promises to pull you up out of te piles and cage that continues to trap us in sins.
This is the true disease that infects us all, the disease of sin. Jesus heals us from this disease and promises everlasting life. So let us continue to come to his stream of living water.
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