tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658689303832573642024-03-13T05:57:33.133-07:00Word of the MasterThe Bible is the Word of God and is our primary means of Hearing God's Voice.
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Feel Free to hit me with a comment and share your views.Man needing of Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09182972603870559604noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265868930383257364.post-67404272310296553492010-10-19T07:42:00.000-07:002010-10-19T19:46:00.380-07:00In pain I Lift you up.<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the deer pants for streams of water, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> so my soul pants for you, O God.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> When can I go and meet with God?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> My tears have been my food </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> day and night, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> while men say to me all day long, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Where is your God?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> These things I remember </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as I pour out my soul: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> how I used to go with the multitude, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> leading the procession to the house of God, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> with shouts of joy and thanksgiving <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> among the festive throng.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why are you downcast, O my soul? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why so disturbed within me? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Put your hope in God, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for I will yet praise him, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my Savior and </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my God. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> My soul is downcast within me; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> therefore I will remember you <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> from the land of the Jordan, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">7</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Deep calls to deep </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in the roar of your waterfalls; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> all your waves and breakers <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> have swept over me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">8</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> By day the LORD directs his love, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> at night his song is with me— <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a prayer to the God of my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">9</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I say to God my Rock, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Why have you forgotten me? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why must I go about mourning, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> oppressed by the enemy?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> My bones suffer mortal agony </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as my foes taunt me, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> saying to me all day long, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Where is your God?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">11</span></span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why are you downcast, O my soul? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why so disturbed within me? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Put your hope in God, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for I will yet praise him, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my Savior and my God.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-PSALM 42:1-11 (NASB)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In times of silence, and in times of solace, when every one seems to turn away, leave you, reject you, scorn you, mock you, and torn you; when you feel that you are crawling on your knees striving to reach your goal, yet the people around you seem to step on you, spit on you, kick you down to the ground, can you still cry and give praise to GOD?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> This is what David experienced as he wrote this psalm. He was so discouraged, down, and upset as it is repeatedly stated in vv. 3 and 10. PEOPLE AROUND HIM MOCK HIM AND HIS GOD! In this chaos which David is going through, He cannot seem to find God near Him, he cannot find God's promises.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In this time of great dilemma wherein what you Know (GOD IS HERE) and What You FEEL (God is far away) are constantly clashing, what should we do?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>LOOK BACK</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Look back and remember, not the hurts or the pains, but HOW HE HAS LIFTED YOU! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">LOOK BACK and remember His PROMISES. as David poetically described his remembrance of the way he used to be before this problem in vv. 4 and 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">" I WILL REMEMBER YOU!" v6.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In times of trouble and great pain, in times of mourning and when i can't seem to see the promises unfolding, I will remember YOU, your promises, for You are faithful and You are always there. That alone gives me the reason to PRAISE YOU in spite of my pain. as repeated in vv 5,11<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why are you downcast, O my soul? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why so disturbed within me? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Put your hope in God, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for I will yet praise him, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my Savior and my God. (v 11)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">IN PAIN I LIFT YOU UP!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Man needing of Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09182972603870559604noreply@blogger.com0