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Thursday... But I really want to know what is happening.


Psalm 42:11 (NLT), "Why am I so discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God!"

Thursday... But I really want to know what is happening.

There are many reasons why we wake up discouraged and why we are so sad. Many times it is because our life is not living up to our expectations. We aren't getting what we want. 


The writer of Psalm 42  asked the why questions. In verse 5a and again in 11a he asks, "Why am I so discouraged? Why is my heart so sad?" Now if this is true of you as you wake up this morning these too might be good questions to ask?  Why am I discouraged? Why am I so sad?

Well the writer didn't answer his questions but he did say what he was going to do. The rest of this verse says, "I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God!" So he must have been putting his hope in the wrong thing. And maybe that is true of us too in our discouragement and sadness. Asking these questions really can help.

I am finding that the problem comes from my wanting to know what is happening. But I am also finding that in what we are going through it is best to take one day at a time and give God that which we can't control. The whys come from what we are putting our hope. 

The Amplified Bible says, "Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him. for I shall praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God."

Hope in God and wait expectantly and praise him for what he has done, is doing and is going to do. 

Verse 8 (NLT) says, "But each day the Lord pours out his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing songs, praying to God who gives me life." Now that is the way to go to sleep and that will make such a difference in how we wake up.

I have found out that when problems wake me up in the middle of the night then I give them over to God. "Here, God. I know you know what you are doing. And you are greater than any problem that I am facing and I really do trust you."

The Amplified Bible says, "Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life."

Now this Psalm starts this way. Verses 1 & 2 says, "As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, so my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God. My soul (my life, my inner self) thirst for God, for the living God."

And that is the way to handle the whys. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning  



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