Call to Worship (9-14-25)
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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?
See the longing of his soul in that?
BUT… did you know...
...that this is the same Psalm...
...that says this?
3 My tears have been my food day and night...
Is that deep pain and sorrow?
...while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
He’s being taunted by his enemies.
They’re mocking his faith in God!
They’re saying:
“where was your God...
...when this great evil happened to you?”
Look at the way he comforts himself:
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.
Comfort through the corporate worship of God’s People!
More importantly, watch this:
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...
In spite of his calamity...
Because of his calamity...
He fixes his gaze upon the Lord for comfort and strength!
Look:
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?”
We don’t always have the answers, do we?
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?”
But, in all the painful uncertainties of life:
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...
Amen?
