"As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the LIVING God; When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me?
HOPE in God, for I shall again praise Him, for the help of His presence.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; and His song will be with me in the night. A prayer to the God of my life!
I will say to God my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?" Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?". Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God."
"This is my beloved and this is my friend." Song of Solomon 5:16
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About Me
- BeckyG.
- I am a stay-at-home mom who is loving the every day journey God is guiding me through! I am learning to rely on Christ for my identity and value. I am taking each day as it comes and trusting God to give me grace and joy on this incredible journey!
4 comments:
God hears your cry and prayer, Becky....love and prayers continue to Him, for you.
I think it's so kind of our God to have scripture that reminds us that we're not the only ones who have felt the way we feel.
Patch the Pirate's song is coming to me this evening....
"How can I fear, Jesus is near, he ever watches over me..
Deep calls to deep at the sound of your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. -- I love the picture of these words. Hoping in God is as overwhelming as when you are caught under a waterfall or in the breaking waves of the ocean. You tumble in it...roll in it...are pounded in it....it drowns out doubt and leaves no room for despair...
I've been popping over to your blog now and again since Amber told me about your diagnosis and upcoming surgery etc.
I was just working on a an outline for a ladies' conference I'm helping with in a couple weeks. I'm introducing the session with a few stories and then this same passage. It has been so meaningful in my life...then when I was cleaning up the kitchen I was thinking about you and praying for you...and I stopped by to see if there were any updates and saw you too were being touched by this marvelous Psalm.
I'll be praying your every temptation to despair will be drowned under the roar of the waterfall of His love.... as you HOPE ...
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