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Psalm chapter 42 verse 5

Why are you cast down oh my soul and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,

my salvation and my God. Sometimes we just need to preach to ourselves.

That's at least part of the point of Psalm 42-5 and the same verse in Psalm 4 to 11 and the same verse in

Psalm 43 verse 5. This is the psalmist speaking to himself saying why are you cast down? Oh my soul why are you in turmoil within me in a way that we can all identify with

Days or season? we can all identify with days or seasons sometimes long seasons when we are in turmoil in trial when we feel cast down what some have called dark nights of the soul or just

hard days that have us down where joy is a struggle, where hope and faith is a fight, and the

Psalmist can identify with us.

Again, one of the things we love about the Bible,

it doesn't present this rosy, perfect, easy picture of life in this world. deals with the hard, raw, challenging

realities of this world including the days when followers of God,

worshippers of God, feel cast down, and feel the effects of turmoil.

And in those moments, we need to do what the Psalmist is doing right here.

We need to preach to ourselves.

We need to tell ourselves what we know is true, we can hope in God.

I tell yourself hope in God.

This is the Psalms speaking to himself

in a way that we need to speak to our own selves. Hope in God and

praise him. He is our salvation and our God. Remember who he is. He is your God. I love this picture my God the God who created the world the God who calls the stars by name. He's not just God he's my, he knows me, he loves me, so much that he has saved me from my

sin, so much that he's sent his son Jesus to die on a cross for me, so much before

the foundation of the world, before mountains were ever placed on

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