“Hope”
What is the title
of Psalm 42? To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
Read Psalm 42:1-4
1 As
a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul/body for you, O God.
2 My soul/body thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
2 My soul/body thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
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.
What is wrong?
Panting, thirsting – LOOKING FOR WATER = looking for God
Tears are water – sustained by sorrow.
Separate from God – “they” even say (mock) you are separate!
Remember – a leader in the house of God!!
Read Psalm 42:5
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 and
my God.
What does the psalmist struggle with here?
WHY is Soul sad/ turmoil?
BUT I know to hope.
Read Psalm 42:6-10
6 My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember
you from the land
of Jordan Mount Mizar
7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
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?”
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?”
7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
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?”
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?”
What is the tension that the psalmist
continues to struggle with?
Remember – cast down
WATER – overwhelming = death
God has forgotten me – adversaries mock me.
Read Psalm 42:11
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, my salvation and my God.
How does the psalmist end?
refrain (v.5)
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME?
What is the purpose of this Psalm/prayer?
Lament cast down soul - sad
Remember trust/salvation in past
How can we pray this?
Lament cast down soul – sad. Pain is real. Especially
for God’s people. Especially for me.
Remember trust/salvation in past – this is our hope. OUTSIDE of our own sad heart.
How does Christ fulfill this psalm?
He knew ultimate pain/separation. He perfectly hoped in God
– to death. We fail, but Christ did not. Now, we can remember and trust in God’s salvation and HOPE for our future. Christ is our OUTSIDE Hope we completely depend on; especially when our inner soul is "cast down".
Thy
will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What
does this mean? The good and gracious will of God is done indeed without
our prayer; but we pray in this petition that it may be done among us also.
How
is this done? When God breaks and hinders every evil counsel and will which
would not let us hallow the name of God nor let His kingdom come, such as the
will of the devil, the world, and our flesh; but strengthens and keeps us
steadfast in His (outside) Word and in faith unto our end. This is His gracious and good
will.
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