Why So Downcast Oh My Soul?

The Psalmist sings,

Day and night my tears

are my only food,

as everyone keeps asking,

“Where is your God?”

Sorrow floods my heart,

when I remember

leading the worshipers

to your house.

I can still hear them shout

their joyful praises.

Why am I discouraged?

Why am I restless?

David sings –
anointed to be a king and inherit a kingdom and legacy,
loved by God
gifted by God
worshipper

yet broken hearted, downcast, distracted by the troubles that loomed large – how can that David be downcast?

Just the same way you are downcast

You
anointed to be a co-heir of a kingdom that will rule all kingdoms
loved by God
gifted by God
worshipper

just the way you too can be downcast.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how great the promises, we can still be all broken to pieces with nothing to fix us.

So do not be dismayed that you are downcast – because even those with the surest of promises wobble in the present from time to time.

Re-align your Hope and do not berate yourself. Being downcast by circumstance is not a sign you are a loser. You are in the company of King David and you dear one are loved just the same.

Put you Hope in Him for you will yet Praise.

God would you meet us at the intersect of our downcast soul and speak promises to the hopeless emotion, speak life to the broken dreams, speak truth to the passing circumstance.

4 thoughts on “Why So Downcast Oh My Soul?”

I so needed to hear that today Miriam. I read that Psalm yesterday morning and cried, because I've been thinking my current depression was from a lack of faith and trusting in Him. I pray daily for healing and restoration, that I might have Joy again, and have been struggling to work out what I'm missing.

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