So. I'm about four paragraphs into a blog. One that was meant for today. And it has been a very long and stressful day. And I'm trying to force this blog to completion, and in the process I'm butchering it. I must accept that my strength has faded, and I am unable to complete the task at hand. In interest of not posting an awful blog, I will simply accept defeat on it for tonight, and finish it for tomorrow. But just in case you took the time to read this, I refuse to let you leave here without somehow pouring the Word of God into your life. This morning I read this passage. But this time I read it all aloud. And it's a very refreshing experience. Maybe it was best my blog didn't work out. So I could challenge you all to just enjoy God's word in a refreshing way. I want you to read this passage. Out loud. See how it goes. I'm confident you will be uplifted. By the way, I am consistently in prayer for all of you who read this. . .
Psalm 42
1 As the deer pants 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.
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.
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 in 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.
You have a gift for expressing your thoughts and sharing God's insights to the truth very well through your blog. I am praying for you as well.
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