Psalm 42
For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.
1
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
My first job ever, I worked for a greenhouse growing flowers and various plants. I worked during the hot summer days for eight hours on my knees in the dirt picking weeds. I helped set up sprinklers and even did some planting but what I remember the most was how hot it would get under the sun. All I could think about was taking my first break so I could get some water. I would bring with me a gallon of frozen water in one of those plastic milk jugs, so by the time it was break time, that frozen block of ice would transform quickly into a nice cold refreshment of water. Once our boss made us work a little bit longer without a break. All I kept thinking in that moment was I’m going to pass out, I’m not going to make it. I would look over to where our cars were parked. It was quite a distance and somewhere over there was my water jug calling out my name. I could barely see it but there it was lying on top of the trunk of my car melting in the sun. I started to wonder is this how people feel when they’re stranded in the desert sun? I was so thirsty I expected to see mirages of swimming pools or cascading waterfalls. All I wanted was to quench my thirst but under the circumstances, I was not able to fulfill that need that I wanted so desperately. In Psalm 42, we read the Psalmist was so desperate in wanting his needs to be fulfilled, he compared himself to a deer panting for water in a dry land. Here the Psalmist is lamenting the fact that He is lacking in spiritual refreshment and even dealing with some circumstances that are causing him great grief. Instead of drinking from the living wells of His God, he is having to drink the water of his tears. He longs for being in God’s presence in Jerusalem again with God’s people so he can be refreshed once again. But for whatever reason God is not allowing that, He is not providing for him. He is faced with doubts, “where is your God”, “why am I downcast?”, he even feels distant from God. In verse 6, he mentions being in “the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.”. There was a considerable distance between being where he was in his physical location to being in Jerusalem where the tabernacle was, and so he longed for this, his heart ached for home. How about us? Do we ever find ourselves drinking the water of our tears because the true source of our sustenance is taking too long to deliver us? Do we find ourselves spiritually dry, struggling with doubt, feeling God is distant, all is lost, hopeless? The Psalmist here was in that very position but what we can learn from him, was that even though he knew his needs were not being met, he made sure he did one thing, he remembered. He reminded himself of the times that God was there for him to meet his needs. Throughout the Psalm he says, “These things I remember as I pour out my soul:”,”therefore I will remember you”. The Psalmist knew that even though he was in a dry spell, God had refreshed him many times in the past and because of this , he could find a renewed hope to keep trusting in His God throughout his difficulties. When spiritually dry, we who are believers should remind ourselves that God is sufficient for all our needs too. This remembrance will encourage us to continue to trust Him while we go through our temporarily distressing periods. Thirsty? Remember, He’s got the Gatorade, hold fast, put your trust in Him, break time is coming.
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.
Thanks for that! Remember all the things God has already done for us and we cannot even fathom how much more he is going to do for us in the future.???
Amen!!!! This reminds me of the message at church yesterday, that we should build memorials of God’s faithfulness to remind us during the dry and desolate times that He’s always taken care of us in the past. And we can trust that He will continue to do so.
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