1.20.11

Psalm 42:11
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.¹

Dear friend,

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones once wrote, "Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?"² David was a man after God's own heart and even he struggled with severe depression at times but notice how he speaks truth to himself here and throughout the Bible. In verse 4 of this Psalm he says "these things I remember" in verse 6 he reiterates, "therefore I will remember you".
If you are struggling today with a downcast and disturbed soul, focus on our Savior. He walked the earth as a man, was crucified as a ransom for our sin and conquered death as He rose from the grave. Praise the Lord that we are now crucified with Christ and we no longer live but Christ lives in us!³

In Christ,
Mike

¹ Also Psalm 42:5 and Psalm 43:5
² David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual depression: its causes and cures (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1965)
³Galatians 2:20