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Monday... So where is the source?


Psalm 42:6 (NLT), "Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you - even from distant Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar."

Monday... So where is the source?

The writer of this Psalm must have been going through a difficult time in his life and he was discouraged. And this is a Monday morning and maybe you too have awakened saying the same thing. So where is the source of this discouragement?

Now in Psalm 42:6 the word source caught my attention. It says, "even from distant Hermon, the source of the Jordan." The writer of this Psalm must have been near Mount Hermon, which was the source of the Jordan River.


Now I have just in the past few weeks read of the Children of Israel crossing the River Jordan on dry ground. I just read today of Jesus being baptized in that same river. Psalm 42:6 (NLT) says, "Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you - even from distant Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar."

Somehow the Psalmist was very discouraged and there was a source of that discouragement.

Now if you would go to the beginning of any river you could step across the source. I remember following the of the beginning of the Colorado River. It started small but it has been damed up here outside where I live in Las Vegas and Lake Mead is huge.

Your discouragement has a source and it too has maybe been damned up but the answer to your discouragement also has a source and we must remember it.

Verses 5 & 6 says, "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you - the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar."

Yes the river grows from a walk across to a major obstacle to cross. But remember what God did. He took his people across it on dry ground and also his son, Jesus was baptized in it.

Verse 5a asks, "Why am I discouraged?" The source at one time was possibly so small, it was easy to handle but it grew and grew. Now it is a major problem. So let's stop and remember to put our hope in God. Yes, he handled the River Jordan and he even had his son baptized in it.

So, "I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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