Psalms 42:5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
As old Master Trapp says, "David tries to talk David out of the dumps; and he does well." Here were two Davids--David that was down and David that was up, and David draws David up. So you, too, if you are a little low tonight, should let your better, godlier self talk to yourself.
Psalms 42:5. Hope thou in God:
If you cannot do anything else, yet hope. The New Zealanders call hope " the swimming thought," because when everything else is drowned up comes hope at the top of the wave. You cannot drown hope.
Psalms 42:5. For I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Snatch from the altars of the future fire-brands with which to kindle the altar of today. " I shall yet praise him." I am not always going to be low. I have hung the harp upon the willows, but I have not broken its strings. I shall take it down again. " I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." If he does but look upon us, if he does but have pity upon us, let us be content with that, and abide his time.
Psalms 42:5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
As old Master Trapp says, "David tries to talk David out of the dumps; and he does well." Here were two Davids--David that was down and David that was up, and David draws David up. So you, too, if you are a little low tonight, should let your better, godlier self talk to yourself.
Psalms 42:5. Hope thou in God:
If you cannot do anything else, yet hope. The New Zealanders call hope " the swimming thought," because when everything else is drowned up comes hope at the top of the wave. You cannot drown hope.
Psalms 42:5. For I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Snatch from the altars of the future fire-brands with which to kindle the altar of today. " I shall yet praise him." I am not always going to be low. I have hung the harp upon the willows, but I have not broken its strings. I shall take it down again. " I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." If he does but look upon us, if he does but have pity upon us, let us be content with that, and abide his time.