Depression, Sadness, Intense Longing, Dispair
Psalm 42:1 As the deer 2pants for the water brooks,
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 continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”
4 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.
His sadness is coming from his circumstances.
Then comes honest self interrogation...
5 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.
This is an important point in the Psalm. He says "Hold it right there"!
Then we are back in depression... One breaker hits after another... Blow on blow and I can't escape...
6 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.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And kin the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will 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 breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 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.
He knows the answer... Find Joy in your God not in your circumstances...
He knows this and it cycles and cycles. He can not transfer his joy to His God and not his circumstance.
Joy is a gift from the Holy Spirit. A gift from God through Jesus Christ. Not related to circumstances, but focused on eternal glory.
Joy of recollection - where is your joy focused? Is it selfless? Is it focused on prayer for others? That their needs may be met.
Joy of intercession.
Joy of participation (fellowship) thrilled with the privilege of being in God's church.
Joy of anticipation. being excited over the future instead of depressed in the present.
Philippians 1:6 And I am sure (absolutely convinced) of this, that He who began (salvation) a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Salvation is a work of God.
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